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The Washington-Oregon coastal zone is a classical Eastern Boundary Current region. The area is extremely productive, the productivity dependent on near-shore infusions of nutrients into surface layers during wind-driven coastal upwelling. The Washington-Oregon coastline is much more regular than areas off California or off the East Coast, where large capes lend complexity to both the physical environment and the ecosystem response. The relatively straight coastline and broad, deep shelf greatly simplify the physical environment, so that processes responsible for much of the variance are more easily identified. The system response from mid-Oregon northward, although not strictly two-dimensional, is more so than many other coastal areas. Consequently, the system is amenable to the testing of relatively simple models integrating wind forcing with physical, chemical and biological responses in the upper water column.
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COASTAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON AND OREGON
FURTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES 1 J L MERO THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SEA 2 L M FOMIN THE DYNAMIC METHOD IN OCEANOGRAPHY 3 E J F WOOD MICROBIOLOGY OF OCEANS AND ESTUARIES 4 G NEUMANN OCEAN CURRENTS 5 N G JERLOV OPTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 6 V VACOUIER GEOMAGNETISM IN MARINE GEOLOGY 7 W J WALLACE THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE CHLORlNlTY/ SALINITY CONCEPT IN OCEANOGRAPHY 8 E LlSlTZlN SEA-LEVEL CHANGES 9 R H PARKER THE STUDY OF BENTHIC COMMUNITIES 10 J C J NIHOUL (Editor) MODELLING OF MARINE SYSTEMS 11 01 MAMAYEV TEMPERATURE SALINITY ANALYSIS OF WORLD OCEAN WATERS 12 E J FERGUSON WOOD and R E JOHANNES TROPICAL MARINE POLLUTION 13 E STEEMANN NIELSEN MARINE PHOTOSYNTHESIS 14 N G JERLOV MARINE OPTICS 15 G P GLASBY MARINE MANGANESE DEPOSITS 16 V M KAMENKOVICH FUNDAMENTALS OF OCEAN DYNAMICS 17 R A GEYER SUBMERSIBLES AND THEIR USE IN OCEANOGRAPHY AND OCEAN ENGINEERING 18 J W CARUTHERS FUNDAMENTALS OF MARINE ACOUSTICS