Noctiluca blooms in the East China Sea bounded by ocean fronts.
Harmful Algae
; 112: 102172, 2022 02.
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| ID: mdl-35144822
ABSTRACT
A recent study demonstrated the possibility of satellite-based detection of surface blooms of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate, red Noctiluca scintillans (RNS). The study further documented RNS bloom patterns in the East China Sea (ECS) between 2000 and 2017. Here, complemented by more recent satellite observations between 2018 and 2020, the 21-year bloom record shows that while bloom distributions vary in different years and annual cumulative bloom footprint shows an increasing trend, the 21-year cumulative bloom footprint is bounded by major ocean fronts such as the Kuroshio Front. Of all observations, 2020 is a critical year to "complete" the footprint as extra discharge from the 2020 Yangtze River flood event, combined with ocean currents, transports the bloom to the most northeast location of the footprint although the riverine influence reaches at least 128°E, well beyond the RNS footprint.
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MEDLINE
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Phytoplankton
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Dinoflagellida
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Asia
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En
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Harmful Algae
Year:
2022
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