EBC-CCS - Table of Contents

# Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics and Climate Change

# Eastern Boundary Current Program
Report on Climate Change and the California Current Ecosystem

## Report Number 7

## September 1992

U.S. GLOBEC Home Page

## Table of Contents

- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

- GOALS AND STRATEGIES OF GLOBEC

  What Is GLOBEC?
  Planning of U.S. GLOBEC Research
  Strategy for GLOBEC Field Programs

- THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM

  Rationale for a GLOBEC Eastern Boundary Current/Upwelling Ecosystem Program in the California Current
  Overview of the California Current System
  Characterizing the "Local" Environment for Marine Organisms
  Satellite Coverage - 1992-1999
  Linkages to Other Field Programs on North America's West Coast
  International Linkages

- WORKING GROUP REPORTS

  Latitudinal Gradients Within the Eastern Boundary Current System
  Importance of Mesoscale Physical Features to Ecological Processes in the California Current System
  Paleo-oceanographic and Long-Term Historic Evidence of Past Variability
  Nutrient Input Mechanisms in Eastern Boundary Current Regimes
  El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Effects Within the California Current System
  Special Tools

  - Technological Needs for Eastern Boundary Current Experiments
  - The Role of Models in the Study of Eastern Boundary Current Systems
  Linkage of Observation Programs at Different Time and Space Scales
  Major Shifts in Species Composition and Ecosystem Structure

- AUTHORS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

- LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

- REFERENCES

- PARTICIPANTS