The effect of the 2013–2016 high temperature anomaly in the subarctic Northeast Pacific (the “Blob”) on net community production

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: B. Yang, S. R. Emerson, M. A. Peña
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Life; QH501-531; Geology; QE1-996.5; Pacific; The Blob; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6747-2018; https://doaj.org/article/f86ddbee9973431eaf8917e51de333f3

A large anomalously warm water patch (the <q>Blob</q>) appeared in the NE Pacific Ocean in the winter of 2013–2014 and persisted through 2016 causing strong positive upper ocean temperature anomalies at Ocean Station Papa (OSP, 50° N, 145° W). The effect of the temperature anomalies on a...