Persistent and highly contrasting biological patterns in the southwestern sector of the Atlantic Ocean: relating local circulation to phytoplankton pigment biomass

• Main Authors: Borrione, Ines, Schlitzer, Reiner
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Kerguelen; Drake Passage; Shackleton; Georgia Basin; Ona Basin; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25753/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25753/1/EGU2011-poster.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39050; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39050.d001

Primary production in the Southern Ocean (SO) is believed to be mostly iron limited; despite the high macronutrient content of waters transported by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the SO is considered a High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll region. However, ocean color imagery shows a variable and patch...