Cyclonic eddies and cross-frontal mixing
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 58 (4) , 955-963
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400056885
Abstract
An examination of infra-red satellite images of the North-West European continental shelf suggests that cross-frontal mixing takes the form of cyclonic eddies. These are about 20–40 kmin scale and persist for a few days. It is suggested that the dynamics of cyclonic eddies willbe important in the development of frontal phytoplankton blooms.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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