Inter-annual variability in the timing of stratification and the spring bloom in the North-western North Sea

• Published in: Continental Shelf Research
• Main Authors: Sharples, Jonathan, Ross, Oliver N., Scott, Beth E., Greenstreet, Simon P.R., Fraser, Helen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Marr; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/541/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2006.01.011

A physical-biological 1D numerical model, forced by tidal currents and observed meteorology, has been used to simulate the inter-annual changes in the timing of spring stratification and the spring phytoplankton bloom between 1974 and 2003 in the Marr Bank region of the North-western North Sea. The...