Water Column Variability in Coastal Regions.

摘要

The long-term goal of this research is to obtain a quantitative understanding of the processes that cause variability in coastal waters over time scales of hours, days, weeks, and longer. The important processes on these short to moderate term time scales are mainly physical, chemical, and biological. Variations in a number of water column properties can be driven by either internal processes such as biological activity, chemical reactions, and mixing of waters or by external forcing from the atmosphere, from runoff and inputs from land, or from exchanges with offshore waters of energy, mass, and biota.