Upwelling California

High nutrient low chlorophyll regions Include the Southern Ocean, equatorial and subarctic North Pacific, and some strong upwelling areas such as off Peru and California. 

Hutchins, D. A., G. R. DiTullio, Y. Zhang, and K. W. Bruland. 1998. An iron limitation mosaic in the California upwelling regime. Limnology and Oceanography 43 1037-1054. 

Fitzwater S.E. Johnson K.S. Elrod Y.A. Ryan J.P. Colletti L.J. Tanner S.J. Gordon R.M. and Chavez F.P. (2003). Iron, nutrient and phytoplankton biomass relationships in upwelling waters of the California coasts system. Continental Shelf Research, 23, 1523-1544. 

Kirchman DL, Meon B, Cottrell MT, Hutchins DA (2000) Carbon versus iron limitation of bacterial growth in the California upwelling regime. Limnol Oceanogr 45(8) 1681—1688... 

Dugdale, R. C., and Wilkerson, P. P. (1989b). New production in the upwelling center at Point Conception, California—Temporal and spatial patterns. Deep Sea Res. 136, 985—1007. 

Lassiter, A. M. (2003). Inter and Intra-annual Patterns of Phytoplankton Assemblages During Upwelling Events off the Coast of Northern California. MA Thesis, San Francisco State University, pp. 140. 

Figure 37.3 Uptake versus irradiance plots for two stations from Monterey Bay, California showing carbon (A, D) nitrate (B, E) and silicate (C, E) uptake estimated using stable ( N) and radiotracers Si).The first station (A-C) was collected from freshly upwelled surface waters ...

Bruland K. W., Rue E. L., and Smith G. J. (2001) The influence of iron and macronutrients in coastal upwelling regimes off central California implications for extensive blooms of large diatoms. Limnol. Oceanogr. 46, 1661-1674. 

An iron limitation mosaic in the California upwelling regime. Limnol. Oceanogr. 43, 1037-1054. 

DeMaster D. J. and Turekian K. K. (1987) The radiocarbon record in varved sediments of Carmen Basin, Gulf of California a measure of upwelling intensity variation during... 

Ziveri P., ThuneU R., and Rio D. (1995) Export production of coccoUthophore in an upwelling region results from San Pedro basin. Southern California bight. Mar. Micropaleontol. 24, 335-358. 

Sancetta C., Lyle M., Heusser L., Zahn R., and Bradbury J. P. (1992) Late-glacial to Holocene changes in winds, upwel-ling, and seasonal production of the Northern California current system. Quat. Res. 38, 359 -370. 

Brumsack H.-J. (1986) The inorganic geochemistry of Cretaceous black shales (DSDP Leg 41) in comparison to modern upwelling sediments from the Gulf of California. In North Atlantic Palaeoceanography, Geological Society Special Publication. No. 21, (eds. C. P. Summerhayes and N. J. Shackleton), pp. 447-462. 

The most striking feature of these sections and the silicate and phosphate (not shown) is the considerable degree of independence in spite of our bias toward similarity as just noted. A strong correlation was previously shown (22) between temperature, nitrate, and phosphate in surveys across the California upwelling system. Correlations as strong as those did not occur here. 

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