Impact of sub-mesoscale physics on production and subduction of phytoplankton in an oligotrophic regime

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 535-565

  Levy M ^a   Klein, P ^a   Treguier, A M ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSCALE EDDY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0034748813     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/002224001762842181     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. The generation of plankton patchiness by turbulent stirring
2. Importance of stirring in the development of an iron-fertilized phytoplankton bloom
3. Physical and biological modeling in the Gulf Stream region Part II. Physical and biological processes
4. Variability of the tropical Atlantic Ocean simulated by a general circulation model with two different mixed-layer physics
5. Kinematics of the Pacific equatorial undercurrent: An Eulerian and Lagrangian approach from GCM results
6. Inertial oscillations and frontogenesis in a zero-potential vorticity model
7. Impact of the North Atlantic equatorial current meandering on a pelagic ecosystem: A modeling approach
8. The frontogenetical forcing of secondary circulations. Part I: The duality and generalization of the Q vector
9. Time scales of pattern evolution from cross-spectrum analysis of advanced very high resolution radiometer and coastal zone colar scanner imagery
10. The variance spectrum of phytoplankton in a turbulent ocean
11. Factors affecting the spatial pattern of the deep-chlorophyll maximum in the region of the Azores front
12. Biological effects of Gulf Stream meandering
13. Some nonquasi-geostrophic effects in linear baroclinic waves
14. Phytoplankton patchiness indicates the fluctuations spectrum of mesoscale oceanic structure
15. Large scale SST anomalies associated with subtropical fronts in the western North Atlantic during FASINEX
16. On nonlinear corrections to the Ekman pumping
17. Mesoscale pigment fields in the Gulf Stream: Observations in a meander crest and trough
18. The use of finite-volume methods for atmospheric advection of trace species. Part I: Test of various formulations in a general circulation model
19. Lagrangian acceleration in geostrophic turbulence
20. The mesoscale variability of the sea surface temperature. An analytical and numerical model
21. Three-dimensional stirring of thermohaline fronts
22. Dynamics of the orientation of active and passive scalars in two-dimensional turbulence
23. Do tracer gradient vectors align with strain vectors in 2-D flows?
24. Evidence for slow mixing across the pycnocline from an open-ocean tracer-release experiment
25. Wind-driven secondary circulation in ocean mesoscale
26. The role of eddies in the isopycnic transfer of nutrients and their impact on biological production
27. The onset of a bloom in the MEDOC area: Mesoscale and high-frequency spatial variability
28. A three-dimentional numerical study of deep water formation in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea
29. Modeling the impact of fronts and mesoscale circulation on the nutrient supply and biogeochemistry of the upper ocean
30. Vortex stripping and the erosion of coherent structures in two-dimensional flows
31. On filament width in oceanic plankton distributions
32. Coupled physical and biological modelling of the spring bloom in the North Atlantic (II): Three dimensional bloom and post-bloom processes
33. Influence of mesoscale eddies on new production in the Sargasso Sea
34. The evolution of balanced, low-modes vortices on the β-plane
35. Overview of the U.S. JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic time-series study and the hydrostation S program
36. Eddy-induced enhancement of primary production in a model of the North Atlantic Ocean
37. Large and mesoscale variability of the water masses and the deep chlorophyll maximum in the Azores front
38. Vorticity and vertical circulation at an ocean front
39. On geometrical alignment properties of two-dimensional forced turbulence
40. Mesoscale eddies, satellite altimetry, and new production in the Sargasso Sea
41. The impact of mesoscale eddies on phytoplankton dynamics in the upper ocean
42. A comparison of primitive-equation and semigeostrophic simulations of baroclinic waves
43. Frontogenesis, subduction, and cross-front exchange at upper ocean fronts
44. Baroclinic jets in confluent flow
45. A numerical model of mesoscale frontal instabilities and plankton dynamics-I. Model formulation and initial experiments
46. Global characteristics of ocean variability estimated from regional TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter measurements
47. Chlorophyll patchiness caused by mesoscale upwelling at fronts
48. Towards the ultimate conservative difference scheme. IV. A new approach to numerical convection
49. Model of frontogenesis: Subduction and upwelling
50. Eddy stirring and phytoplankton patchiness in the subarctic North Atlantic in late summer
51. A comparison of primitive and balance equations simulations of baroclinic waves
52. Mesoscale upwelling and primary production
53. The vertical partition of oceanic horizontal kinetic energy
54. Cold and warm frontal circulations in an idealized moist semigeostrophic baroclinic wave
55. Ageostrophic pseudovorticity and geostrophic C-vector forcing - A new look at the Q vector in three dimensions
56. Rotary motions and convection as a means of regulating primary production in warm core rings
57. Effects of interaction between two warm-core rings on phytoplankton distribution