{"id":318,"date":"2021-05-28T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/134.157.178.243\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:47:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/solab.locean.ipsl.fr\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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SOLAB is a research project that has been funded by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR<\/strong><\/a>; 2019-2024). SOLAB is now formally over but many research lines opened during SOLAB are still underway.<\/p>\n

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SOLAB’s general objective was to improve our ability to anticipate and manage coastal ocean evolutions. Its key premise was that adaptation, mitigation, restoration, and hazard prevention strategies have to be based on an in-depth integrated understanding of the present and past system states and their functioning. Specifically, the objectives of the SOLAB project were to characterize and understand the trophic functioning (from physics to fish) of the south-Senegalese upwelling system (SSUS), with a particular attention to plankton, which has a central role in marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n

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The scientific approach we followed took inspiration from various ongoing and past research programs in various parts of the California current system (Oregon coast<\/a>, Point Reyes\/Bodega Bay<\/a>, Monterey Bay<\/a>, CCE-LTER A-Front Study<\/a>, the Irish Sea<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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Sea surface temperature (SST) and Chlorophyl-a (Chla) over the senegalese coastal ocean on 5 January 2016, from satellite MODIS-AQUA. Preferential upwelling south of Dakar\/Cape Verde peninsula and transport of cold upwelling water southward form a blue tongue pattern in SST, surrounded by warmer reddish waters both inshore and offshore. Chla patterns reveal enrichment by upwelling inside the cold SST tongue. Near the coast, retention processes, recycling and perhaps terrigenous input concur to yield maximum plankton biomass. <\/em><\/mark><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Interactions exist with several companion projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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