Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland

Coastal ocean transport patterns in the central Southern California Bight
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Published:January 01, 2009
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Marlene A. Noble, Kurt J. Rosenberger, Peter Hamilton, J.P. Xu, 2009. "Coastal ocean transport patterns in the central Southern California Bight", Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland, Homa J. Lee, William R. Normark
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In the past decade, several large programs that monitor currents and transport patterns for periods from a few months to a few years were conducted by a consortium of university, federal, state, and municipal agencies in the central Southern California Bight, a heavily urbanized section of the coastal ocean off the west coast of the United States encompassing Santa Monica Bay, San Pedro Bay, and the Palos Verdes shelf. These programs were designed in part to determine how alongshelf and cross-shelf currents move sediments, pollutants, and suspended material through the region. Analysis of the data sets showed that the current...
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- California
- coastal sedimentation
- continental borderland
- continental margin sedimentation
- continental shelf
- continental slope
- currents
- East Pacific
- inner slope
- Los Angeles County California
- marine pollution
- marine transport
- North Pacific
- Northeast Pacific
- ocean circulation
- ocean currents
- Pacific Ocean
- Palos Verdes Peninsula
- pollution
- San Pedro Basin
- Santa Monica Basin
- sea water
- sediment transport
- sedimentation
- Southern California
- suspended materials
- tidal currents
- tides
- United States
- Southern California Bight