Origin of Moisture for the Precipitation Produced by the Exceptional Winter Storm Formed over the Gulf of Mexico in March 1993 by Patricia Coll-Hidalgo, Albenis Pérez-Alarcón, Luis Gimeno

“…Our findings revealed that most of the moisture came from the western North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Moreover, the eastern US and Mexico acted as notable terrestrial moisture sources. …”
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Sea anemones (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria) in high sedimentation environments influenced by the Magdalena River (Colombian Caribbean) by JEFERSON DURÁN-FUENTES, ADRIANA GRACIA, RICARDO GONZÁLEZ-MUÑOZ

“…Abstract Fifteen species of sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) have been recorded so far in the Colombian Caribbean, comprising approximately 28% of the total number of known species in the Caribbean Sea. Most species recorded are associated with coral reef communities. …”
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The security aspects of globalised crises and the phenomenon of generated instability in the post-Soviet space by Mišev Gordana

“…The main hypothesis starts from the fact that in the security environment in which conflicts between the US and Russia and the projection of their power beyond their borders have led to the establishment of a wide zone of instability that covers the Black Sea and the Caribbean Sea. The subject of the research is the analysis of external factors and global circumstances that lead to armed conflicts, and the objective is to explain the security aspects of the establishment of socio-political crises and generated instability that reflects on the countries of the post-Soviet region. …”
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Global diversity of aloricate Oligotrichea (Protista, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) in marine and brackish sea water. by Sabine Agatha

“…These endemics are found in the Antarctic, North Pacific, and Black Sea, whereas the "flagship" species Strombidinopsis cercionis is confined to the Caribbean Sea. Concerning genera, again several geographic patterns are recognizable. …”
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Six new records of decapod crustacean species (Anomura, Brachyura) from southern Brazil by Daniel Lima, Harry Boos, Marcos Tavares

“…Paguristes spectabilis was known only from the holotype (off Trinidad, Caribbean Sea) and two additional females from off Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Effect of Climate Variability Events over the Colombian Caribbean Offshore Wind Resource by Martha Bastidas-Salamanca, Juan Gabriel Rueda-Bayona

“…The need for reducing the CO₂ emissions and fossil fuel dependence of several countries generated a growing interest for the Renewables. The Caribbean Sea is characterized by persistent and high magnitude winds, which suggest an important source of offshore wind energy. …”
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Updated checklist of the extant Chondrichthyes within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Mexico by Nicolás Roberto Ehemann, Lorem del Valle González-González, Jorge Guillermo Chollet-Villalpando, José De La Cruz-Agüero

“…For the Mexican Pacific and the Gulf of California, 92 species of chondrichthyans are listed compared to 94 species for the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Additionally, 31 species listed occur on both coasts of Mexico. …”
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La mer, un vecteur de construction régionale dans l’espace interaméricain ? Une lecture géographique et géopolitique de la maritimisation by Sylvain Domergue

“…In contrast to a traditional reading of the Caribbean basin alone, the study highlights a regionalization of maritime and commercial interactions, as well as illicit flows, around a vast geographical area that includes the Pacific coasts of Central America and Ecuador, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic approaches to the Guiana Shield. …”
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A novel Satellite-based Ocean Monitoring System for Mexico by S Cerdeira-Estrada, G López-Saldaña

“…In this paper we present a novel automatic Satellite-based Ocean Monitoring System (SATMO) developed to provide, in near real-time, continuous spatial data sets of the above-mentioned variables for marine-coastal ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico, northeastern Pacific Ocean, and western Caribbean Sea, with 1 km spatial resolution. The products are obtained from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images received at the Direct Readout Ground Station (located at CONABIO) after each overpass of the Aqua and Terra satellites. …”
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Manx shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding in the western Atlantic follow a different migration route from their eastern Atlantic conspecifics by Fayet, AL, Shannon, P, Lyons, DE, Kress, SW

“…The tracked shearwaters followed a post-breeding migration route southward along the US East Coast, through the Caribbean Sea, and along the coast of eastern South America. …”

Tracking nest-rescued green sea turtles in oceanic currents sheds light on eastern Caribbean “lost years” by J. Jacob Levenson, J. Jacob Levenson, Robert Cooper, Amelia Weissman, Desirée Bell, Jamison Smith, Marcella Harris

“…Mapping turtle movement to ocean currents reveals that juvenile green turtles spent most of their travel time within the Caribbean Sea, passively riding the prevailing currents before actively directing themselves toward distant coastal waters. …”
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Trends of Hydroclimatic Intensity in Colombia by Oscar Mesa, Viviana Urrea, Andrés Ochoa

“…This dipole in trends suggests different mechanisms: ENSO affects western Colombia more directly, whereas rainfall in the eastern regions depends more on the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Amazon basin dynamics. Nevertheless, there is countrywide accord among gauges and cells with significant increasing trends for annual precipitation. …”
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A new estuarine species, Nereis garwoodi (Polychaeta: Nereididae), from Bahía Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast by Luis E. González-Escalante, Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo

“…A revised key to species of Nereis recorded from the Grand Caribbean Sea is included.<br>Se describe N. garwoodi n. sp. con base en ocho ejemplares sintipos (seis atokos y dos heteronereis) recolectados en el sublitoral (1 m) en la bahía de Chetumal y se define la variación en los paragnatos de las áreas diag-nósticas de la faringe usando 180 ejemplares, las cuáles son I:10(SD=1.9); II:30 (SD=2.6); III:41 (SD=5.2); IV:29 (SD=3.5), V:1, VI:4, VII-VIII:>30. …”
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Could artificial ocean alkalinization protect tropical coral ecosystems from ocean acidification? by Ellias Y Feng (冯玉铭), David P Keller, Wolfgang Koeve, Andreas Oschlies

“…Employing an Earth system model of intermediate complexity, our implementation of AOA in the Great Barrier Reef, Caribbean Sea and South China Sea regions, shows that alkalinization has the potential to counteract expected 21st century local acidification in regard to both oceanic surface aragonite saturation Ω and surface pCO _2 . …”
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Protective immunity by an engineered DNA vaccine for Mayaro virus. by Hyeree Choi, Sagar B Kudchodkar, Emma L Reuschel, Kanika Asija, Piyush Borole, Michelle Ho, Krzysztof Wojtak, Charles Reed, Stephanie Ramos, Nathen E Bopp, Patricia V Aguilar, Scott C Weaver, J Joseph Kim, Laurent Humeau, Pablo Tebas, David B Weiner, Kar Muthumani

“…Since its discovery in Trinidad in 1954, cases of MAYV infection have largely been confined there and to the northern countries of South America, but recently, MAYV cases have been reported in some island nations in the Caribbean Sea. Accompanying these reports is evidence that new vectors, including Aedes spp. mosquitos, recently implicated in the global spread of Zika and chikungunya viruses, are competent for MAYV transmission, which, if true, could facilitate the spread of MAYV beyond its current range. …”
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An Analytic Hierarchy Process Based Approach for Evaluating Feasibility of Offshore Wind Farm on the Colombian Caribbean Coast by Adalberto Ospino-Castro, Carlos Robles-Algarín, Amanda Mangones-Cordero, Sharys Romero-Navas

“…The main objective of this research is to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to prioritize a group of criteria and sub-criteria as decision-making support for the selection of suitable areas in which implementing wind energy projects in the Colombian Caribbean Sea. The criteria to be applied in this study were selected based on the most recurrently employed criteria in other research papers and the experience of the authors. …”
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First Total Synthesis and Biological Screening of a Proline-Rich Cyclopeptide from a Caribbean Marine Sponge by Rajiv Dahiya, Sunil Singh, Ajay Sharma, Suresh V. Chennupati, Sandeep Maharaj

“…A natural heptacyclopeptide, stylissamide G (7), previously isolated from the Bahamian marine sponge Stylissa caribica from the Caribbean Sea, was synthesized via coupling of the tetrapeptide l-phenylalanyl-l-prolyl-l-phenylalanyl-l-proline methyl ester with the tripeptide Boc-l-leucyl-l-isoleucyl-l-proline, followed by cyclization of the linear heptapeptide fragment. …”
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Novel coexisting mangrove-coral habitats: Extensive coral communities located deep within mangrove canopies of Panama, a global classification system and predicted distributions by Heather A. Stewart, Jennifer L. Wright, Matthew Carrigan, Andrew H. Altieri, David I. Kline, Rafael J. Araújo

“…We identify 130 species of corals living within mangrove habitats across 12 locations spanning the Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and South Pacific. …”
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The compositional model of Santo Domingo and Cartagena fortifications between old and new world by Anna Dell'Amico, Silvia La Placa

“…In the first decades of the seventeenth century, the New World was a destination for explorations and observations by the great monarchies of the old continent: the English, French, Dutch, and Spanish fought over lands and businesses on a Caribbean sea that became international. In 1586 Philip II of Spain nominated Battista Antonelli as his engineer, with the specific aim of structuring the defense of the lands of the Corona overseas. …”
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Wind Speed Prediction for Offshore Sites Using a Clockwork Recurrent Network by Yuxuan Shi, Yanyu Wang, Haoran Zheng

“…The experiments are performed by using the actual data of two different offshore sites located in the Caribbean Sea and one onshore site located in the interior of the United States, to verify the performance of the model. …”
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