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Florida Everglades and Restoration
Published in Caiyun Zhang, Multi-sensor System Applications in the Everglades Ecosystem, 2020
The coastal ecosystems in the Everglades include sandy beaches, mangroves and salt marshes, shallow bays, and Florida reef tract, which blend from one to another (McPherson et al., 1976). Water is the medium connecting these coastal ecosystems. Salt water from offshore currents moves over the reef tract (Figure 1.15), through the bays and mangroves (Figures 1.16), and back offshore carrying physical and biological products from one coastal environment to another. Fresh water, moving overland from the mainland through the mangroves, into the bays, and out to sea, transports terrestrial products to marine habitats. Where moving water acquires sufficiently different characteristics, it supports different plant and animal communities. The Florida Current, moving around the tip of Florida, provides clean, warm, and saline water to the coastal areas, forming coral reef ecosystems and supporting a diverse tropical flora and fauna. It also transports and distributes juvenile fish and invertebrates to coastal waters. The interaction of fresh water and tidal saline water creates the extensive grass beds with highly diverse and productive habitats. This book provides more details about two coastal ecosystems: reef tract and seagrass beds, and mangrove forests. We applied remote sensing data to characterize them. Mangrove forests
NOAA's operational satellite ocean heat content products
Published in Journal of Operational Oceanography, 2022
Eileen M. Maturi, Lynn N. Shay, David R. Donahue, Deirdre A. Byrne
To illustrate the point, two pre-storm cases are included here for Irma (2017) and Dorian (2019). In Figure 5, the mapped SSHA and SST fields include the best tracks of both hurricanes on the SST panel from the NESDIS Global SST Analysis (Maturi et al. 2017). There is not a one-to-one correspondence in these images. Notice the SSTs and SSHAs tend to be higher in the western boundary current region and includes the Florida Straits. The energetic Florida current, where surface velocities often exceed 2ā m sā1, transports warm water out of the Gulf of Mexico eventually becoming the core of the Gulf Stream (Archer et al. 2017). The western parts of the basin contains a significant amount of heat that often fuels storms.