Studies on the biological oceanography of Haida eddies

• Main Author: Peterson, Tawnya Dawn
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Queen Charlotte; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16964

Haida eddies are large (150— 300 km in diameter), long-lived (> 2 years), anticyclonic eddies that form each winter off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, in British Columbia, Canada (54°N, 130°W) and drift westward into the Gulf of Alaska, carrying nutrients and trace metals within t...