Abstract:
The Coastal Ocean Advances in Shelf Transport (COAST) program conducted an
interdisciplinary study of coastal upwelling off central Oregon during summer 2001.
Two intensive field efforts during May–June and August 2001 were coordinated with
ocean circulation, ecosystem, and atmospheric modeling of the region. A primary
goal was to contrast the coastal ocean response to wind forcing in a region of relatively
simple alongshore bottom topography versus that associated with a substantial submarine
bank. In this overview we provide background motivation for the COAST project
and summarize the major research findings.
