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Seasonal variability of the subpolar gyres in the Southern Ocean: a numerical investigation based on transfer operators. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 16:655-664, (2009).M. Dellnitz, G. Froyland, C. Horenkamp, K. Padberg-Gehle, and A. Sen Gupta. Seasonal variability of the subpolar ...
The detection of regions in the ocean that are coherent over an extended period of time is a fundamental problem in many oceanic applications. For instance such regions are important for studying the transport of marine species and for the distribution of nutrients. In this study we demonstrate ...
Introduction The open ocean is one of the largest habitats on Earth. Microorganisms in the surface waters of the oceans control biogeochemical cycling of elements and the exchange of gases with the atmosphere, including greenhouse gases. Most of the microorganisms in the open ocean have not been ...
William Butler Yeats opens his 1920 poem, "The Second Coming," with the following lines: "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…." Often found in poetic or ...
Ocean gyres are large, circular rotations of water that are caused by theCoriolis effect. While the term “gyre” is used to refer to any type of vortex, both on the land, sea, and air, ocean gyres specifically refer to the five large gyres that are located in the world’s oceans. ...
Basin-wide ocean gyres have been observed to be slowly migrating toward the poles and, although natural variations contribute, climate simulations suggest the shift is in response to global warming. SOURCE:Geophysical Research Letters Observed trends (s...
"When phytoplankton and other things living in the sunlit layer die, or get eaten and excreted, they start falling down through the ocean, and their nutrients are absorbed back into the water," Doddridge says. "So the thicker that homogenous layer is, the longer it takes these particles to...
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the observational database in order to address fundamental questions as to how dissolved organic nutrients influence N and P budgets, how they affect nutrient cycling and the sustainment of biological production within two major ocean oligotrophic gyres: th...
“We think a new scheme is needed out in the ocean to be able to treat plastics to reduce the impact of plastics pollution.” “In the meantime,” he continues, “if you can use the plastic waste to recover it as an energy source, it becomes a fully sustainable process. That is ...