HR: 1340h
AN: GC23A-1299    [Abstracts]
TI: Warming of the Eurasian Landmass is Making the Arabian Sea More Productive
AU: Goes, J I
EM: jgoes@bigelow.org
AF: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 United States
AU: Thoppil, P G
EM: thoppil@nrlssc.navy.mil
AF: Oceanography De- partment, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943 United States
AU: Gomes, H d
EM: hgomes@bigelow.org
AF: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 United States
AU: * Fasullo, J T
EM: fasullo@ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Dr, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AB: The recent trend of declining winter and spring snow cover over Eurasia is causing a land-ocean thermal gradient that is particularly favorable to stronger southwest (summer) monsoon winds. Since 1997, sea surface winds have been strengthening over the western Arabian Sea. This escalation in the intensity of summer monsoon winds, accompanied by enhanced upwelling and an increase of more than 350 percent in average summertime phytoplankton biomass along the coast and over 300 percent offshore, raises the possibility that the current warming trend of the Eurasian landmass is making the Arabian Sea more productive.
UR: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/308/5721/545
DE: 0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions (0426, 1610)
DE: 0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling (0412, 0793, 1615, 4805, 4912)
DE: 1616 Climate variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513)
DE: 1631 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218, 1843, 3322)
DE: 1637 Regional climate change
SC: Global Climate Change [GC]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005