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Intensification and spatial homogenization of coastal upwelling under climate change
Description: Here scientists show that there are strong and consistent changes in the timing, intensity and spatial heterogeneity of coastal upwelling in response to future warming in most Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUSs). An ensemble of climate models shows that by the end of the twenty-first century the upwelling season will start earlier, end later and become more intense at high but not low latitudes. This projected increase in upwelling intensity and duration at high latitudes will result in a substantial reduction of the existing latitudinal variation in coastal upwelling. [Source: Nature]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14235
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Source: Nature
Publish Date: 2/18/2015
Reading Level: Expert
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