The National Map (TNM), being developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), is created from many data sources and Web Map Services (WMS) owned by many organizations. TNM data sources are electronically stored at various scales and resolutions. Consequently, when data are extracted from several WMS and horizontally integrated in geospatial data applications, the differences between da...

[1] An extensive Alexandrium fundyense bloom occurred along the coast of the Gulf of Maine in late spring and early summer 2005. To understand the physical aspects of bloom’s initiation and development, in situ observations from both a coast-wide ship survey and the coastal observing network were used to characterize coastal circulation and hydrography during that time period. Comparisons betwe...

Processes at the Mineral}Water and Particle}Water Interface in Natural Systems. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Summers RM (1989) Point and Non-point Source Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loading to the Northern Chesapeake Bay. Maryland Department of the Environment, Water Management Administration, Chesapeake Bay Special Projects Program, Baltimore, MD. Wiltshire KH (1992) The inSuence of microphytobent...

The Luzon Strait is a key place in the East Asian climate change study. The climate condition of the South China Sea is significantly controlled by the Luzon Strait transport (LST) (Qu et al., 2004; Liu et al., 2008). Variability in the Kuroshio origin around the strait is mostly caused by the LST, and significantly affects the oceanic variability around Japan and Korea in the downstream. In sp...