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27 Apr 2017
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| 27 Apr 2017
Upwelling and isolation in oxygen-depleted anticyclonic modewater eddies and implications for nitrate cycling
Johannes Karstensen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Florian Schütte
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Alice Pietri
Sorbonne Universites (UPMC Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, UMR 7159, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et de Climatologie
(LOCEAN), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Observatoire Ecce Terra, 4
place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Gerd Krahmann
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Björn Fiedler
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Damian Grundle
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Helena Hauss
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Arne Körtzinger
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
Carolin R. Löscher
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
now at: Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern
Denmark, Campusvej 555230 Odense M, Denmark
Pierre Testor
Sorbonne Universites (UPMC Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, UMR 7159, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et de Climatologie
(LOCEAN), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Observatoire Ecce Terra, 4
place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Nuno Vieira
Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP), Cova de
Inglesa, Mindelo, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Martin Visbeck
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel,
Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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High-resolution observational data from underwater gliders and ships are used to investigate drivers and pathways of nutrient upwelling in high-productive whirling ecosystems (eddies). The data suggest that the upwelling is created by the interaction of wind-induced internal waves with the local rotation of the eddy. Because of differences in nutrient and oxygen pathways, a low-oxygen core is established at shallow depth in the high-productive eddies.
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