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JOURNAL OF MARINE RESEARCH
Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 37-62Publisher
SEARS FOUNDATION MARINE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1357/002224010793079004
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- French coastal environment research program PNEC
- New-Caledonia research program ZoNeCo
- IRD
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Although coastal upwelling has now been the subject of many studies. the only available dynamical upwelling index is derived from a simple relation between upwelling intensity and alongshore winds stress In this study. we first present a primitive equation model simulation of the New Caledonia island legion to show that upwelling intensity can be limited by onshore geostrophic flow Then, we propose a new analytical model accounting for the effect of onshore geostrophic flow on the structure of upwelling The analytical model is shown to match remarkably well the solution of the primitive equation model Used as an upwelling index. ills also a better fit to SST indices over the world's four large upwelling legions than the classical Bakun index We conclude that alongshore pressure gradients (in addition to shelf topography) ale crucial to the upwelling problem and its addition to theoretical models can improve their explanatory value and predictive skills.
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