Connectivity Patterns of Coastal and Neritic Fish Larvae in Deep Waters in the Western Gulf of Mexico: How Ichthyoplankton Surveys Can Be Helpful to Evaluate the Reliability of the Velocity Fields Provided by the Circulation Models?

Compaire, Jesus

Connectivity Patterns of Coastal and Neritic Fish Larvae in Deep Waters in the Western Gulf of Mexico: How Ichthyoplankton Surveys Can Be Helpful to Evaluate the Reliability of the Velocity Fields Provided by the Circulation Models?

Jesus C Compaire¹, Sylvia Patricia Adlheid Jiménez-Rosenberg², Javier Rodriguez Outerelo³, Laura del Pilar Echeverri-García⁴, Paula Perez-Brunius³ and Sharon Z Herzka⁴, (1)CICESE, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, BS, Mexico, (3)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (4)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico