Understanding drivers of variability in oceanic primary productivity is essential to increase our understanding of the functioning of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Here, interannual variability of satellite-derived chlorophyll- a (CHL) and its underlying oceanographic processes are analyzed in six coastal regions of the tropical and south Atlantic. Along the South American coast, sea-surface height (SSH) and alo...

Downscaling physical forcing from global climate models is both time consuming and labor demanding and can delay or limit the physical forcing available for regional marine ecosystem modelers. Earlier studies have shown that downscaled physics is necessary for capturing the dynamics of primary production and lower trophic levels; however, it is not clear how higher trophic levels respond to the coarse resolution physics of glo...