Salish Sea ORCA buoy observations over the last decade: warmer and saltier than normal anomalies and their persistence

• Main Authors: Newton, Jan, Carini, Roxanne
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2022
• Subjects: Admiralty Inlet; Carr; Ocean acidification; Orca
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2022ssec/allsessions/188; https://cedar.wwu.edu/context/ssec/article/3350/viewcontent/208_0b0d1500d5154fa19bbe7f452c0d3748.pdf

Profiling buoys take frequent (one to four times per day) measurements of water properties over the full water column. This allows characterization of short and long-term processes, including deep-water renewal events, surface influence of river runoff and heating, and tracking water mass properties...