• Sea surface height map showing ocean elevations along the west coast of Canada during the winter of 1998.

• Light transmission through waters in the Haida-1998 Eddy
• Sketch of the structure of a Haida Eddy

• Cross section of temperature and salinity through Haida-1998 in September 1998, as measured by Frank Whitney on the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel J.P. Tully.

Research papers on Haida Eddies are published in a special issue of Deep-Sea Research Part II in 2005. Titles of these papers are listed below:

• Lisa A. Miller, Marie Robert, William R. Crawford. Preface: The large, westward-propagating Haida Eddies of the Pacific eastern boundary.

• E. Di Lorenzo, M.G. G. Foreman, and W.R. Crawford. Modelling the generation of Haida Eddies.

• Douglas Yelland and William R. Crawford. Currents in Haida Eddies.

• William R. Crawford. Heat and fresh water transport by eddies into the Gulf of Alaska.

• W. Keith Johnson, Lisa A. Miller, Nes E. Sutherland , and C.S. Wong. Iron transport by mesoscale Haida eddies in the Gulf of Alaska.

• Melissa Chierici, Lisa A. Miller, Frank A. Whitney, Keith W. Johnson, and C.S Wong. Biogeochemical evolution of the carbon dioxide system in the waters of long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

• Tawnya D. Peterson, Frank A. Whitney, and Paul J. Harrison. Macronutrient dynamics in an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy in the Gulf of Alaska.

• William R. Crawford, Peter J. Brickley, Tawnya D. Peterson, Andrew C. Thomas. Impact of Haida Eddies on Chlorophyll Distribution in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska.

• D.L. Mackas, M. Tsurumi, M.D. Galbraith, and D.R. Yelland. Zooplankton Distribution and Dynamics in a North Pacific Eddy of Coastal Origin: II. Mechanisms of eddy colonization by and retention of offshore species.

• Sonia D. Batten and William R. Crawford. The influence of coastal origin eddies on oceanic plankton distributions in the eastern Gulf of Alaska.

• M. Tsurumi, D.L. Mackas, F.A. Whitney, C. DiBacco, M.D. Galbraith, and C.S. Wong. Pteropods, eddies, carbon flux, and climate variability in the Alaska Gyre.

• Frank A. Whitney, David W. Crawford and Takeshi Yoshimura. The uptake and export of silicon and nitrogen in HNLC waters of the NE Pacific.

JPL Press Release, February 14th, 2000

The first observations, September 1998,  CMOS Bulletin.   Download Adobe Acrobat Reader

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