About the Authors

Iván J. Alonso-González

ialonso@oceomic.com

Affiliations Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Spanish Bank of Algae (BEA), Telde, Spain

Javier Arístegui

Affiliation Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Cindy Lee

Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Anna Sanchez-Vidal

Affiliation GRC Geociències Marines, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Calafat

Affiliation GRC Geociències Marines, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Fabrés

Affiliation UNEP Shelf Programme Facility, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Arendal, Norway

Pablo Sangrá

Affiliation Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Evan Mason

Affiliations Grup d'Oceanografia Fisica, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CMIMA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Esporles, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IA-G JA AC PS. Performed the experiments: IA-G AS-V JF. Analyzed the data: IAG JA CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA AC CL PS. Wrote the paper: IA-G JA CL. Performed climatological ROMS numerical model configuration: EM.