Research Document 1998/115
Overview of coastal environmental conditions in 1997
By B. Petrie
Abstract
A brief review of the general ocean state in 1997 indicates that sea surface temperature changes were quite coherent in the region with similar variations in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Scotian Shelf. However, in the Bay of Fundy conditions varied in a different manner. Freshwater runoff as indicated by Rivsum was exceptionally high during 1997. Satellite estimates of sea surface temperature for the nearshore areas indicates widespread coherent variability. Wintertime SST was generally above normal changing to below normal values in spring, particularly in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and the eastern Scotian Shelf. This variability was reflected somewhat in data from moored sub-surface instruments. In a number of locations, strong temperature fluctuations showed marked vertical and horizontal coherence.
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