The Influence of Nonlinear Mesoscale Eddies on Near-Surface Oceanic Chlorophyll

By Dudley Chelton, P. Gaube, M. Schlax, Jeffrey J. Early, Roger Samelson. Science, 2011

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Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale (2012, background): “…eddies can regulate both the lateral [e.g., Williams and Follows, 1998; Oschlies, 2002; Lévy, 2003; Ferrari et al., 2008; Lehahn et al., 2011; Chelton et al., 2011] and vertical [e.g., McGillicuddy et al., 1998; Uz et al., 2001; Cipollini et al., 2001; Martin and Richards, 2001; McGillicuddy…”
Movements and habitat use of reef manta rays off eastern Australia: offshore excursions, deep diving and eddy affinity revealed by satellite telemetry (2014, background): “Mesoscale eddies, such as the Capricorn Eddy, stimulate and redistribute biological production in the ocean, thus creating attractive pelagic habitats for free-ranging, higher trophic level marine organisms (Chelton et al. 2011, Godø et al. 2012).”
A Big Data Guide to Understanding Climate Change: The Case for Theory-Guided Data Science (2014, background): “32 However, the patterns identiﬁed were not analyzed based on a simple physical fact that eddies are theoretically axisymmetric Gaussian features 33 with a single extremum (maximum or minimum).”
Defining coherent vortices objectively from the vorticity (2015, background): “Chelton et al. (2011) observe that nonlinear eddies (vortices with a rotation speed exceeding their translation speed) trap fluid in their interior and transport it along.”
EddyScan: A physically consistent ocean eddy monitoring application (2012, background): “Second, until recently, nonlinear eddies were commonly confused with linear Rossby waves in satellite data [6].”
Spatio-Temporal Consistency as a Means to Identify Unlabeled Objects in a Continuous Data Field (2014, background): “Eddies have also been shown to impact marine ecosystems by raising the deep nutrient-rich water to the surface, which renews the nutrient supply to phytoplankton and subsequently leads to increased fish production (Denman and Gargett 1983; Chelton et al. 2011).”
Southern Ocean eddy phenomenology (2015, background): “…phase speeds from the ones of baroclinic Rossby waves and the small poleward and equatorward deflection of cyclones and anticyclones, respectively [Cushman-Roisin et al., 1989; Morrow, 2004; Van Leeuwen, 2007], as well as for eddy-eddy interactions [Chelton et al., 2011b; Early et al., 2011].”