Ocean circulation pattern over North Atlantic seamounts: Ormonde and Formigas

• Main Authors: Mosquera-Giménez, Ángela, Vélez-Belchí, Pedro, Piñeiro, Safo, Fajar, Noelia, Rivera, Jesús, Caínzos, Verónica, Santiago, Rocío, Rodríguez Rodríguez, Marta Álvarez, Balbín, Rosa, Jiménez-Aparicio, Juan Antonio, Aparicio-González, Alberto
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medio Marino y Protección Ambiental; Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias; Seamounts; Mediterranean Outflow Water; Taylor columns/caps; Internal waves; Stepping Stones; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/13037; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/317804

Seamounts constitute an obstacle to the free ocean flow giving rise to a variety of hydrodynamical processes and phenomena such as, among others, Taylor columns/caps. As a consequence of that, seamounts may turn into very productive ecosystems with high biodiversity, which provide a particularly goo...