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Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1003-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1003-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
Research article
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25 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 25 Aug 2016

Impact of vertical and horizontal advection on nutrient distribution in the southeast Pacific

Bàrbara Barceló-Llull, Evan Mason, Arthur Capet, and Ananda Pascual

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Vertical velocity in the ocean makes an important contribution to the modulation of marine ecosystems through its impact on fluxes of nutrients and phytoplankton. Here, we estimate full 3-D current velocity fields from an observation-based data product. The 3-D currents are used to force a set of particle-tracking (Lagrangian) experiments. The Lagrangian results show that vertical motions induce local increases in nitrate uptake reaching up to 30 %.
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