Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3641-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3641-2015
Research article
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11 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 11 Jun 2015

Synoptic-scale analysis of mechanisms driving surface chlorophyll dynamics in the North Atlantic

A. S. A. Ferreira, H. Hátún, F. Counillon, M. R. Payne, and A. W. Visser

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Our main objective was to assess which bottom-up processes can best predict changes in phytoplankton surface spring blooms in the North Atlantic. We applied new phenology algorithms to satellite-derived data and compared four different metrics based on physical drivers of phytoplankton. We show that there is a dominant physical mechanism - mixed layer shoaling - and that different regions are governed by different physical phenomena.
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