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A limited effect of sub-tropical typhoons on phytoplankton dynamics
State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
Xiaogang Xing
State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
Yunwei Yan
State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
Huijie Xue
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
Mark Wells
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Emmanuel Boss
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
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Short summary
The unique observations by a Biogeochemical Argo float in the NW Pacific Ocean captured the impact of a super typhoon on upper-ocean physical and biological processes. Our result reveals typhoons can increase the surface chlorophyll through strong vertical mixing without bringing nutrients upward from the depth. The vertical redistribution of chlorophyll contributes little to enhance the primary production, which is contradictory to many former satellite-based studies related to this topic.
The unique observations by a Biogeochemical Argo float in the NW Pacific Ocean captured the...
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