Large scale and mesoscale patterns of metabolic activity of epipelagic micro and mesoplankton in the Northeastern Central Atlantic at 21ºN

• Main Authors: Hernández-León, S., Postel, L., Arístegui, J., Gómez, M., Montero, M. F., Torres Curbelo, Santiago, Almeida, C., Kühner, E., Brenning, U., Hagen, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: 251001 Oceanografía biológica; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/74570

ROSSBY or planetary waves are large-scale and long period, are generated due to temporal variations in the wind stress curl and they are produced annually in the central North Atlantic\ On the other hand, N^ fixating organisms introduce the largest fraction of new nitrogen in the euphotic zone in tr...