EL NINO 1997-98 IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A TIMELINE OF EVENTS
EL NINO 1997-98 IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A TIMELINE OF EVENTS
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1997-98 年南加州沿海水域的厄尔尼诺现象:事件时间表
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T. Hayward
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Timely detection of changes in the tropical Pacific and subsequent predictions that the west coast of North America would be impacted by a strong El Niiio event in 1997 enabled CalCOFI to augment its time-series sampling to provide monthly coverage of a subset of the sample grid. The 1997-98 El Niiio event in California waters is described here in terms of a preliminary timeline of events. This improved description of the timing of changes in the CalCOFI region provides new insights into the types of changes that might be expected during future events, and it also constitutes a natural experiment which can be used to test hypotheses about the cause-and-effect mechanisms linkmg changing physical structure with ecosystem impacts. Although some effects attributed to El Niiio were evident in the summer and fall of 1997, the strongest occurred in winter 1997-98 and spring 1998. Advection and changes in ranges of mobile populations were consistent with the northward extension of the range of southern warmwater species of migratory game fish and plankton. However, the timeline observations were not consistent with predictions based upon a simple model of bottomup trophic processes (changes in physical structure, nutrients, phytoplankton, zooplankton, upper trophic levels) as the mechanism linking changing physical and ecosystem structure. While not surprising, since few simple models have much skill in predicting structure in natural ecosystems, this suggests that ecosystem managers will have to await a better understanding of cause-andeffect linkages before improved skill in observing and predicting the physical effects of El Niiio upon Cahfornia waters can be directly translated into improved skill in predicting ecosystem effects.
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