| Smoothed (25-month running mean) standardized departures from average monthly conditions for temperature (red line and left axis) and for abundance of young stages of the planktonic copepod, Calanus finmarchicus (green line and right axis) in the shelf and slope waters between New York City and Bermuda. The departures for the copepod abundance have been inverted to help reveal a suspected inverse relationship between the two features. The average conditions for the 1978 through 1997 period are shown by the zero line on the y-axis. Figure by Julien Goulet,NMFS. |