Eddies make ocean deserts bloom

Richard G. Williams () and Michael J. Follows ()
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Richard G. Williams: the Oceanography Laboratories, University of Liverpool
Michael J. Follows: the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6690, 228-229

Abstract: In some parts of the ocean, the subtropical gyre at mid-latitudes for instance, phytoplankton primary production is greater than would be expected from the known availability of nutrients. So extra nutrients must be coming from somewhere. New studies implicate energetic ocean eddies, on a horizontal scale of tens to hundreds of kilometres, as the source that provides them.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/28285

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