The pelagic ecosystem in the Northern California Current off Oregon during the 2014–2016 warm anomalies within the context of the past 20 years

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Peterson, William T., Fisher, Jennifer L., Strub, P. Ted, Du, Xiuning, Risien, Craig, Peterson, Jay, Shaw, C. Tracy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Article; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; The Blob; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668311/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204583; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017jc012952

A warm anomaly in the upper ocean, colloquially named “the Blob,” appeared in the Gulf of Alaska during the calm winter of 2013–2014, spread across the northern North Pacific (NP) Ocean, and shifted eastward and onto the Oregon shelf. At least 14 species of copepods occurred which had never been obs...