Coastal ocean processes
Subtitle: wind-driven transport processes on the U.S. west coast : Portland, Oregon, Workshop July 14-16, 1993
By: R.L. Smith, K.H. Brink.
Contributors: Brink, Kenneth H.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Series: WHOI -- 94-20.; CoOP report -- no. 4.; Coastal ocean processes report -- no. 4.; WHOI (Series) -- 94-20.
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 1994
Place of publication: [Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Oceanography.
Other titles: Wind-driven transport processes on the U.S. west coast.
Description: Wind-driven transport occurs on nearly all of the world's continental shelves. A workshop, open to all interested scientists, was held in Portland, Oregon, on July 14-16, 1993, to assess the need for a major interdisciplinary study, and to begin defining the relevant questions and approaches. Specific questions were posed in the areas of air-sea feedback, sources and sinks of chemicals in the euphotic zone, plankton distributions and benthic exchanges. The consensus of the entire workshop was that a CoOP study of wind-drven transport processes should be made and should take place over the continental margin adjacent to the U.S. west coast. The central question to be addressed is: What processes control the cross-margin transport of biological, chemical and geological materials in a strongly wind-driven system? Some recommendations were made for locations and measurement techniques to be used in the envisioned two-year field program.
Notes: "September 1994."

"Technical report."

"Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under grant no. OCE92-24824."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-38).

Also issued online.