•What processes control GB salinity, and what caused the
1996-97 freshening event? What is the relationship to the larger
scale NWA, climate variability?
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•What are the sources of water, nutrients, and biota that
get onto GB along the northern flank, and by
what processes?
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•What physical processes (e.g., wind-driven flow, SSW
cross-overs) contributed to the large 1998
haddock year class?
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•How well can FVCOM capture the dominant small scale
processes that control the observed
spread of tracers?
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•Can FVCOM produce water property and flow fields with
sufficient accuracy to (a) study
physical phenomena on time scales from tidal, synoptic, seasonal, to innerannual, and (b)
contribute to biological understanding through coupled biological models.
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