Global plot of SST

Mapping Eastern boundry upwelling

Coastal upwelling is a major oceanographic process driven by prominent currents near Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) (Bakun and Nelson, 1991; Messié et al., 2009; Gruber et al., 2011; Pegliasco et al., 2015, Brady et al., 2019). EBUS include the California (CCS), Humboldt (HCS), Canary (CnCS) and Benguela (BCS) current systems (Figure 1), with each of these significantly impacting their associated coastal systems. These systems are characterised as vast regions of coastal ocean occurring along the western shores of continents bordering the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (Bakun, 1990; Pauly and Christensen, 1995; Bakun et al., 2015, Bakun et al., 2010). EBUS span a wide range of latitudes and are therefore spatially heterogeneous environments. The CCS experiences significant natural variability from sources such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation with important ecosystem consequences. The CnCS is heavily influenced by the North Atlantic Oscillation. The HCS environmental and biological diversity are also heavily influenced by ENSO. The BCS is unique as it experiences interannual variability in the physical and biological conditions relate to the Benguela Niños and Pacific ENSO. In the south, the BCS is largely influenced by the variability in the Agulhas current (García-Reyes, et al., 2015).

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load("data/OISST_global.RData") # Downloaded one year of global OISST data
load("data/site_squares.RData") # Making the squares showing the EBUS regions

OISST_global <- OISST_global %>%
  mutate(lon = ifelse(lon > 180, lon - 360, lon))

map_base <- ggplot2::fortify(maps::map(fill = TRUE, col = "grey80", plot = FALSE)) %>%
  dplyr::rename(lon = long) %>%
  mutate(group = ifelse(lon > 180, group+9999, group),
         lon = ifelse(lon > 180, lon-360, lon))

ggplot() +
  geom_raster(data = OISST_global, aes(x = lon, y = lat, fill = temp), show.legend = TRUE) +
  geom_polygon(data = map_base, aes(x = lon, y = lat, group = group)) +
  geom_rect(data = site_squares, aes(xmin = xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin = ymin, ymax = ymax),
            colour = "red", fill = NA, size = 0.75) +
  annotate("text", label = "D", x = 4.0, y = -25.0,
           size =5, angle = 0, colour = "black") +
  annotate("text", label = "C", x = -25.0, y = 29.5,
           size =5, angle = 0, colour = "black") +
  annotate("text", label = "B", x = -88, y = -30,
           size =5, angle = 0, colour = "black") +
  annotate("text", label = "A", x = -133, y = 40.0,
           size =5, angle = 0, colour = "black") +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(-150, 150, by = 50),
                     labels  = c("150°W", "100°W", "50°W", "0", "50°E", "100°E", "150°E")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(-60, 60, by = 30),
                     labels = c("60°S", "30°S", "0", "30°N", "60°N")) +
  coord_quickmap(ylim = c(-78.5, 90), expand = FALSE) +
  scale_fill_gradientn("SST (°C)", values = scales::rescale(c(-1, 7,19,26)),
                       colors = c("lightcyan1", "orchid1", "skyblue", "blue3")) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL) +
  theme_set(theme_grey()) +
  theme_grey() +
  theme(panel.border = element_rect(fill = NA, colour = "black", size = 1),
        axis.text = element_text(colour = "black", size = 20, family = "Palatino"),
        axis.title = element_text(colour = "black", size = 20, family = "Palatino"),
        axis.ticks = element_line(colour = "black"),
        axis.ticks.length = unit(0.4, "cm"),
        legend.text=element_text(size=15, family = "Palatino"),
        legend.title = element_text(size = 15, family = "Palatino"))

Amieroh Abrahams
Amieroh Abrahams

Scientist with a passion for data, statistics; the ocean and the oceangraphic processes associated with it.