Southern Ocean wind‐driven entrainment enhances satellite chlorophyll‐a through the summer

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Carranza, Magdalena M, Gille, Sarah T
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; summer phytoplankton blooms; atmospheric forcing; mixed-layer depth dynamics; wind-driven entrainment; Ekman pumping; Geophysics; Oceanography; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jh507gs; https://escholarship.org/content/qt5jh507gs/qt5jh507gs.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jc010203

Despite being the largest High Nitrate Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) region, the Southern Ocean sustains phytoplankton blooms through the summer, when presumably there is sufficient light, but nutrients in the euphotic zone have been depleted. Physical processes that can potentially supply nutrients from s...