Eddy/Wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5827, 2007, Pages 1021-1026

  McGillicuddy Jr , Dennis J ^a   Anderson, Laurence A ^a   Bates, Nicholas R ^b   Bibby, Thomas ^c,d   Buesseler, Ken O ^a   Carlson, Craig A ^e   Davis, Cabell S ^a   Ewart, Courtney ^e   Falkowski, Paul G ^c   Goldthwait, Sarah A ^f,g   Hansell, Dennis A ^h   Jenkins, William J ^a   Johnson, Rodney ^b   Kosnyrev, Valery K ^a   Ledwell, James R ^a   Li, Qian P ^h   Siegel, David A ^e   Steinberg, Deborah K ^f  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^g HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ALGAL BLOOM; CYCLONE; DIATOM; EDDY; EPISODIC EVENT; MODE WATER; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYCLONE; DIATOM; GEOLOGY; HURRICANE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; WEATHER; WIND; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); BERMUDA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 34249054524     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136256     Document Type: Article

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54. We thank the officers and crews of the R/V Oceanus and R/V Weatherbird II for their outstanding support during our seagoing operations. R. Leben provided near-real-time altimetric data that were crucial for our adaptive sampling effort. Nutrient samples were processed by the Nutrient Analytical Facility (P. Henderson) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Numerical simulations were performed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Scientific Computing Division. We thank O. Kosnyreva for expert data analysis and visualization and S. Stasiowski for administrative support. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of all participants in the EDDIES project, which included a number of BATS technicians. For more information, see http://science.whoi.edu/users/olga/eddies/EDDIES_Project.html. The EDDIES project was funded by NSF's Chemical, Biological, and Physical Oceanography Programs. Additional support for remote sensing aspects (including altimetry and QuikSCAT wind analyses) and high-performance liquid chromatography pigment assays (C. Trees, Center for Hydro-Optics and Remote Sensing) was provided by NASA.