Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003eaeja.....8825v&link_type=abstract
EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #8825
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Recent global space-borne observations have suggested that the planetary waves, like a rototiller, may be able to pump nutrients or chlorophyll-rich waters from depth to the surface layers via vertical processes thus enhancing phytoplankton biomass. Such mechanisms may account for 5 to 20 % of the observed variability in chlorophyll concentration (Uz et al., 2001), which may make up for the observed biological carbon fixation yet to be explained in these areas. Here we show that in the South Pacific subtropical gyre, Rossby wave propagations do not support these vertical process hypotheses as the chlorophyll maxima are located in downwelling areas. We suggest that these space-borne detected anomalies are not related to chlorophyll signals but rather created by artifacts of ocean colour algorithms. These anomalies may thus correspond to large scale surface accumulation, in the Rossby wave associated convergences, of floating biogenic particles naturally produced by the oligotrophic ecosystem of the subtropical gyre.
Dandonneau Yves
du-Penhoat Yves
Loisel Hubert
Menkes Christophe
Vega Alfredo
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