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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 1241-1248Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067550
Keywords
Spray gliders; California Current System; warm SST; downwelling anomaly
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- NOAA through Climate Observation Division
- Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System [NA11NOS0120029]
- NSF [OCE1232971]
- [NA10OAR4320156]
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1232971] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Large-scale patterns of positive temperature anomalies persisted throughout the surface waters of the North Pacific Ocean during 2014-2015. In the Southern California Current System, measurements by our sustained network of underwater gliders reveal the coastal effects of the recent warming. Regional upper ocean temperature anomalies were greatest since the initiation of the glider network in 2006. Additional observed physical anomalies included a depressed thermocline, high stratification, and freshening; induced biological consequences included changes in the vertical distribution of chlorophyll fluorescence. Contemporaneous surface heat flux and wind strength perturbations suggest that local anomalous atmospheric forcing caused the unusual oceanic conditions.
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