Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2005. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 18, 2 (2005): 210-227.
Description:
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) represent a diverse
range of phenomena that universally share only two
characteristics: they produce effects on ecosystems
or food resources that humans perceive as harmful,
and their progression is fundamentally a process
of population dynamics under oceanographic control.
Because of the complexity, scales, and transient
nature of HABs, their monitoring and prediction
requires rapid, intensive, extensive, and sustained
observations at sea. These requirements cannot
be met with traditional approaches that depend
on ships for sampling and laboratories for chemical
or biological analyses. Fortunately, new sensing
technologies that operate autonomously in situ will
allow, in the near future, the development of comprehensive
observation strategies for timely detection
of HABs. In turn, developments in modeling
will support prediction of these phenomena, based
directly on real-time measurements.
Description:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the
following agencies for their financial
support of the Habwatch workshop:
European Commission (EC), National
Scientific Foundation (NSF), European
Space Agency (ESA), Office of Naval Research
(ONR), International Foreign Office of ONR, Centre National d’Etudes
Spatiales (CNES), Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Scientific Commission on Oceanic Research
(SCOR), Centre Nationale de la Recherche
Scientique (CNRS), Institut Français
de Recherche pour l’Exploration de la
MER (Ifremer), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Commission (NOAA).
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
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application/pdf
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