Particle tracking modelling in coastal marine environments: Recommended practices and performance limitations

S Garnier, ROH Murray, PA Gillibrand, A Gallego… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Particle tracking models (PTMs) can simulate the dispersal of particulate and dissolved
material in the marine environment that are difficult to observe directly–including organic …

The physical oceanography of upwelling systems and the development of harmful algal blooms

GC Pitcher, FG Figueiras, BM Hickey… - Progress in oceanography, 2010 - Elsevier
The upwelling systems of the eastern boundaries of the world's oceans are susceptible to
harmful algal blooms (HABs) because they are highly productive, nutrient-rich environments …

Why is the northern end of the California Current System so productive?

BM Hickey, NS Banas - Oceanography, 2008 - JSTOR
Although scientists have long believed that, in an eastern boundary current system,
alongcoast wind stress is responsible for the upwelling of deep nutrients that initiates …

The contiguous panarctic Riverine Coastal Domain: A unifying concept

E Carmack, P Winsor, W Williams - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Riverine Coastal Domain (RCD) is a narrow (∼< 15 km), shallow (∼ 10 m)
contiguous feature that is primarily forced driven by an aggregate of continental runoff …

River influences on shelf ecosystems: introduction and synthesis

BM Hickey, RM Kudela, JD Nash… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems (RISE) is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary
study of the rates and dynamics governing the mixing of river and coastal waters in an …

Seasonal and interannual oxygen variability on the Washington and Oregon continental shelves

SA Siedlecki, NS Banas, KA Davis… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The coastal waters of the northern portion of the California Current System experience a
seasonal decline in oxygen concentrations and hypoxia over the summer upwelling season …

Hindcasts of potential harmful algal bloom transport pathways on the Pacific Northwest coast

SN Giddings, P MacCready, BM Hickey… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose a significant threat to human and marine organism
health, and negatively impact coastal economies around the world. An improved …

Evaluation of a coastal ocean circulation model for the Columbia River plume in summer 2004

Y Liu, P MacCready, BM Hickey… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Realistic hindcast of the Columbia River estuarine‐plume‐shelf circulation in summer 2004
using the Regional Ocean Modeling System nested within the Navy Coastal Ocean Model …

The 'interior'shelves of the Arctic Ocean: Physical oceanographic setting, climatology and effects of sea-ice retreat on cross-shelf exchange

WJ Williams, EC Carmack - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
The interior shelves of the Arctic Mediterranean are the shelves of the Kara Sea, Laptev Sea,
East Siberian Sea and Beaufort Sea. They comprise approximately 40% of the total arctic …

Validation of a coupled wave‐flow model in a high‐energy setting: The mouth of the Columbia River

EPL Elias, G Gelfenbaum… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A monthlong time series of wave, current, salinity, and suspended‐sediment measurements
was made at five sites on a transect across the Mouth of Columbia River (MCR). These data …