Eastern Pacific Coastal Upwelling from LDEO Climate Library

Sampling started at the end of 1996 and was supported by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), the US National Science Foundation, and the Climate Center of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The sampling strategy is based on the observations of van Geen et al. (1992) and van Geen and Husby (1996) near San Francisco Bay, California, showing that concentration of upwelling-sensitive tracers such as nutrients and the trace metal cadmium in surfzone water is determined mainly by large-scale wind-forcing rather than local processes.

The data set consists of measurements of cadmimum, nitrite and nitrate, phosphorus, silicate, and salinity from Bio-Bio, Coliumo, Las Cruces, El Quisco, Las Lozas, Santa Maria, Los Cerritos, Tecolote, Arbolitos, Tres_Hermanas, Pillar Point, San Francisco, Humboldt Bay, Trinidad, Seven Devils, and Coos Bay. For more details, see: "ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.EPCU/.dataset_documentation.html"