Net primary production in the Gulf Stream sustained by quasi-geostrophic vertical exchanges

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 441-449

  Pascual, Ananda ^a   Ruiz, Simõn ^a   Buongiorno Nardelli, Bruno ^b,c   Guinehut, Stéphanie ^d   Iudicone, Daniele ^e   Tintoré, Joaquín ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Istituto di Scienze dell' Atmosfera e del Clima   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d CLS   (France)

^e STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^f SOCIB   (Spain)

Author keywords

Argo; mesoscale vertical velocity; primary production; quasi geostrophic dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; NUTRIENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; VELOCITY;

ARGO; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MESOSCALE VERTICAL VELOCITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC DYNAMICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ADVECTION; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GROWTH RATE; GYRE; MESOSCALE MOTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYTOPLANKTON; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84923561528     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062569     Document Type: Article

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