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Biological significance of surface flooding in warm-core ocean eddies

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Deep convective overturn has an important role1 in enhancing the productivity of warm-core ocean eddies. An eddy (F) formed from the East Australian Current in early 1978 overwintered further to the south and developed a significant phytoplankton bloom the following spring. We describe here another process which tends to terminate such blooms by submerging winter water, relatively rich in nutrients, beneath poorer water of more recent origin.

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  1. Division of Fisheries Research, CSIRO Marine Laboratories, PO Box 21, Cronulla, New South Wales, 2230, Australia

    D. J. Tranter & G. S. Leech

  2. Division of Oceanography, CSIRO Marine Laboratories, PO Box 21, Cronulla, New South Wales, 2230, Australia

    D. J. Vaudrey

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Tranter, D., Leech, G. & Vaudrey, D. Biological significance of surface flooding in warm-core ocean eddies. Nature 297, 572–574 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/297572a0

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