Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-271-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-271-2020
Research article
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02 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 02 Mar 2020

Dynamical connections between large marine ecosystems of austral South America based on numerical simulations

Karen Guihou, Alberto R. Piola, Elbio D. Palma, and Maria Paz Chidichimo

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The exchange between the Humboldt and Patagonian large marine ecosystems, the largest marine ecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere, is investigated with numerical simulations. Most of the southern Patagonian Shelf waters originate from the South Pacific's upper layer. The exchange takes place mainly through the shelf break via the Cape Horn shelf. The interannual variability of shelf exchange is partly explained by the large-scale wind variability and associated with the Southern Annular Mode.
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