Birth, life and death of a cyclonic eddy in the Southern Ocean
The ACC is a climatically relevant frontal structure of global importance that regularly develops instabilities which grow into meanders that eventually evolve into long-lived cyclonic eddies. These eddies exhibit sustain primary productivity that can last several months fuelled by local resupply of...
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ftplymouthml:oai:plymsea.ac.uk:6976 2023-05-15T18:24:48+02:00 Birth, life and death of a cyclonic eddy in the Southern Ocean Torres, R Adams, K Sallee, J-B Bachman, S Taylor, J 2016-02-22 image text http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/ http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/1/OS2016Torres.pdf http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/2/OS2016Torres.pdf en eng http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/1/OS2016Torres.pdf http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/2/OS2016Torres.pdf Torres, R; Adams, K; Sallee, J-B; Bachman, S; Taylor, J. 2016 Birth, life and death of a cyclonic eddy in the Southern Ocean. [Poster] In: AGU general meeting - Ocean Sciences, New Orleans, 22-26 February 2016. (Unpublished) cc_public_domain PDM Atmospheric Sciences Marine Sciences Publication - Conference Item NonPeerReviewed 2016 ftplymouthml 2022-09-13T05:48:49Z The ACC is a climatically relevant frontal structure of global importance that regularly develops instabilities which grow into meanders that eventually evolve into long-lived cyclonic eddies. These eddies exhibit sustain primary productivity that can last several months fuelled by local resupply of nutrients. During April-May 2015 we conducted an intensive field experiment in the Southern Ocean (SMILES) where we sampled and tracked an ACC meander as it developed into an eddy and later vanished some 90 days later. The meander and later eddy physical characteristics were observed with a combination of high resolution hydrography, ADCP and turbulence observations in addition to surface and depth resolved biogeochemical observations of nutrients and phytoplankton. The life and death of the eddy was subsequently tracked through ARGO, BIO-ARGO and remote sensing. Text Southern Ocean Plymouth Marine Science Electronic Archive (PlyMSEA - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, PML) Southern Ocean |
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The ACC is a climatically relevant frontal structure of global importance that regularly develops instabilities which grow into meanders that eventually evolve into long-lived cyclonic eddies. These eddies exhibit sustain primary productivity that can last several months fuelled by local resupply of nutrients. During April-May 2015 we conducted an intensive field experiment in the Southern Ocean (SMILES) where we sampled and tracked an ACC meander as it developed into an eddy and later vanished some 90 days later. The meander and later eddy physical characteristics were observed with a combination of high resolution hydrography, ADCP and turbulence observations in addition to surface and depth resolved biogeochemical observations of nutrients and phytoplankton. The life and death of the eddy was subsequently tracked through ARGO, BIO-ARGO and remote sensing. |
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Birth, life and death of a cyclonic eddy in the Southern Ocean |
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Birth, life and death of a cyclonic eddy in the Southern Ocean |
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http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/1/OS2016Torres.pdf http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6976/2/OS2016Torres.pdf Torres, R; Adams, K; Sallee, J-B; Bachman, S; Taylor, J. 2016 Birth, life and death of a cyclonic eddy in the Southern Ocean. [Poster] In: AGU general meeting - Ocean Sciences, New Orleans, 22-26 February 2016. (Unpublished) |
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