Sentence examples for oceanographic circulation from inspiring English sources

The proliferation of the vegetation is partly ascribed to changes in South Atlantic oceanographic circulation, linked to the closure of the Central American Seaway and the onset of the Benguela Current ~ 14 Ma.

Biophysical models incorporating oceanographic circulation have been applied successfully to landscape/seascape analyses of dispersal barriers and population structure for marine invertebrates (e.g. Galindo et al. 2006; Kool et al. 2010; White et al. 2010).

The period leading up to closure of the isthmus during the late Miocene to late Pliocene was characterized by changing global oceanographic circulation patterns, leading to drastic environmental, ecological, and taxonomic shifts within the Caribbean basin.

In the Baltic Sea, biophysical models of dispersal have been used to explore patterns of growth, mortality and recruitment of herring cod and sprat (e.g. Bartsch et al. 1989; Hinrichsen et al. 2005) but no attempts have been made to test for a link between oceanographic circulation and genetic divergence in Baltic Sea fish populations.

Asymmetric gene flow between the northern and southern side of the entrance of the Baltic has been demonstrated also for the free-spawning bivalve Macoma balthica and is in accordance with the oceanographic circulation pattern in the Baltic Sea (Elken and Matthäus 2008).

The main pattern of genetic diversity and structure in N. magellanica appears to be the result of the combination of the impact of the last glacial period in Pacific Patagonia and the prevailing oceanographic circulation, together with life-history traits like its indirect development and its narrow bathymetric range.

Physical properties of the water and satellite estimates of primary productivity were used separately to describe 25 different water masses in Australia's oceans, identified by different circulation regimes and oceanographic features.

The model reproduced realistic river runoffs and oceanographic features, such as the clockwise circulation, that agreed quantitatively with observations.

These climate indices are correlated with population dynamics [8], [9] because they reflect atmospheric circulation patterns which regulate large scale oceanographic processes and ecosystem productivity [10], [11].

In one study, Fiammetta Straneo of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and colleagues looked at water temperatures and circulation in a fjord in East Greenland that is the terminus of Helheim glacier.

Waters in the region are not only freshening, but a buildup of fresher water is diminishing the bank of saltier, denser water that sustains the deep southward-flowing circulation in the Atlantic, said Dr. Ruth Curry, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at Cape Cod, Mass.