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dc.contributor.authorDufois, F.
dc.contributor.authorHardman-Mountford, N.J.
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, M.
dc.contributor.authorWojtasiewicz, B.
dc.contributor.authorShenoy, D.M.
dc.contributor.authorSlawinski, D.
dc.contributor.authorGauns, M.
dc.contributor.authorGreenwood, J.
dc.contributor.authorToresen, R.
dc.date.accessioned18/2/2019
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-18T20:16:34Z
dc.date.available16/4/2017
dc.date.available2019-02-18T20:16:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationGeophysical Research Letters, vol.44(7); 2017; 3255-3264
dc.identifier.issn1944-8007
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072371
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7910
dc.description.abstractThe South Indian Ocean subtropical gyre has been described as a unique environment where anticyclonic ocean eddies highlight enhanced surface chlorophyll in winter. The processes responsible for this chlorophyll increase in anticyclones have remained elusive, primarily because previous studies investigating this unusual behavior were mostly based on satellite data, which only views the ocean surface. Here we present in situ data from an oceanographic voyage focusing on the mesoscale variability of biogeochemical variables across the subtropical gyre. During this voyage an autonomous biogeochemical profiling float transected an anticyclonic eddy, recording its physical and biological state over a period of 6weeks. We show that several processes might be responsible for the eddy/chlorophyll relationship, including horizontal advection of productive waters and deeper convective mixing in anticyclonic eddies. While a deep chlorophyll maximum is present in the subtropical Indian Ocean outside anticyclonic eddies, mixing reaches deeper in anticyclonic eddy cores, resulting in increased surface chlorophyll due to the stirring of the deep chlorophyll maximum and possibly resulting in new production from nitrate injection below the deep chlorophyll maximum
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.relation.isreferencedbySCI
dc.titleObservational insights into chlorophyll distributions of subtropical South Indian Ocean eddies
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.affiliation.authorCSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia


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