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Comment
. 2008 Apr 25;320(5875):448; author reply 448.
doi: 10.1126/science.1152111.

Comment on "Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms"

Amala Mahadevan  1 , Leif N Thomas, Amit Tandon
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Comment on "Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms"

Amala Mahadevan et al. Science. .

Abstract

McGillicuddy et al. (Reports, 18 May 2007, p. 1021) proposed that eddy/wind interactions enhance the vertical nutrient flux in mode-water eddies, thus feeding large mid-ocean plankton blooms. We argue that the supply of nutrients to ocean eddies is most likely affected by submesoscale processes that act along the periphery of eddies and can induce vertical velocities several times larger than those due to eddy/wind interactions.

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    McGillicuddy DJ Jr, Anderson LA, Bates NR, Bibby T, Buesseler KO, Carlson CA, Davis CS, Ewart C, Falkowski PG, Goldthwait SA, Hansell DA, Jenkins WJ, Johnson R, Kosnyrev VK, Ledwell JR, Li QP, Siegel DA, Steinberg DK. McGillicuddy DJ Jr, et al. Science. 2007 May 18;316(5827):1021-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1136256. Science. 2007. PMID: 17510363

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