Zooplankton research off Peru: a review

P Ayón, MI Criales-Hernandez, R Schwamborn… - Progress in …, 2008 - Elsevier
A review of zooplankton studies conducted in Peruvian marine waters is given. After a short
history of the development of zooplankton research off Peru, we review zooplankton …

Vertical structure of mesoscale eddies in the eastern South Pacific Ocean: A composite analysis from altimetry and Argo profiling floats

A Chaigneau, M Le Texier, G Eldin… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The mean vertical structure of mesoscale eddies in the Peru‐Chile Current System is
investigated by combining the historical records of Argo float profiles and satellite altimetry …

Widespread functional anoxia in the oxygen minimum zone of the Eastern South Pacific

B Thamdrup, T Dalsgaard, NP Revsbech - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2012 - Elsevier
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) as found in the Eastern Pacific and Indian Ocean are
biogeochemical hot spots with a disproportionately large role in the marine nitrogen cycle …

Main eddy vertical structures observed in the four major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems

C Pegliasco, A Chaigneau… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the four major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS), mesoscale eddies are
known to modulate the biological productivity and transport near‐coastal seawater …

Water masses in the Humboldt Current System: Properties, distribution, and the nitrate deficit as a chemical water mass tracer for Equatorial Subsurface Water off …

N Silva, N Rojas, A Fedele - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Three sections are used to analyze the physical and chemical characteristics of the water
masses in the eastern South Pacific and their distributions. Oceanographic data were taken …

The formation of a subsurface anticyclonic eddy in the P eru‐C hile U ndercurrent and its impact on the near‐coastal salinity, oxygen, and nutrient distributions

S Thomsen, T Kanzow, G Krahmann… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The formation of a subsurface anticyclonic eddy in the Peru‐Chile Undercurrent (PCUC) in
January and February 2013 is investigated using a multiplatform four‐dimensional …

Near‐coastal circulation in the Northern Humboldt Current System from shipboard ADCP data

A Chaigneau, N Dominguez, G Eldin… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The near‐coastal circulation of the Northern Humboldt Current System is described
analyzing∼ 8700 velocity profiles acquired by a shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoceanographic insights on recent oxygen minimum zone expansion: lessons for modern oceanography

SE Moffitt, RA Moffitt, W Sauthoff, CV Davis, K Hewett… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Climate-driven Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) expansions in the geologic record provide an
opportunity to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of OMZ change. Here we …

Introduction to the special section bio-optical and biogeochemical conditions in the South East Pacific in late 2004: the BIOSOPE program

H Claustre, A Sciandra, D Vaulot - Biogeosciences, 2008 - bg.copernicus.org
The objectives of the BIOSOPE (BIogeochemistry and Optics SOuth Pacific Experiment)
project was to study, during the austral summer, the biological, biogeochemical and bio …

Rapid reorganization in ocean biogeochemistry off Peru towards the end of the Little Ice Age

D Gutiérrez, A Sifeddine, DB Field, L Ortlieb… - …, 2009 - bg.copernicus.org
Climate and ocean ecosystem variability has been well recognized during the twentieth
century but it is unclear if modern ocean biogeochemistry is susceptible to the large, abrupt …