%0 Journal Article
%T A submesoscale coherent vortex in the Ligurian Sea: From dynamical barriers to biological implications
%+ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR)
%+ Variabilité de l'Océan et de la Glace de mer (VOG)
%+ Variabilité de l'Océan et de la Glace de mer (VOG)
%+ Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV)
%+ Développement Instrumental et Techniques Marines (DITM)
%+ Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN)
%+ Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS)
%+ Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO)
%A Bosse, Anthony
%A Testor, Pierre
%A Mayot, Nicolas
%A Prieur, Louis
%A d'Ortenzio, Fabrizio
%A Mortier, Laurent
%A Le Goff, Hervé
%A Gourcuff, Claire
%A Coppola, Laurent
%A Lavigne, Héloïse
%A Raimbault, Patrick
%Z “Chantier Méditrranée” MISTRALS program (HyMeX and MERMeX components)
%Z MOOSE long-term observatory (SOERE/AllEnvi-SNO/INSU)
%Z COST Action ES0904 “EGO” (Everyone's Gliding Observatories)
%Z Editors’ Highlight in JGR 122 (11) "Multi-scale observations of deep convection in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea during winter 2012-2013 from a multi-platform approach"
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 2169-9275
%J Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans
%I Wiley-Blackwell
%V 122
%N 8
%P 6196 - 6217
%8 2017-08
%D 2017
%R 10.1002/2016JC012634
%K coherent eddies
%K submesoscale eddies
%K nutrients
%K phytoplankton
%K glider
%K Mediterranean Sea
%Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environmentJournal articles
%X In June 2013, a glider equipped with oxygen and fluorescence sensors has been used to extensively sample an anticyclonic Submesoscale Coherent Vortex (SCV) in the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea). Those measurements are complemented by full‐depth CTD casts (T, S, and oxygen) and water samples documenting nutrients and phytoplankton pigments within the SCV and outside. The SCV has a very homogeneous core of oxygenated waters between 300 and 1200 m formed 4.5 months earlier during the winter deep convection event. It has a strong dynamical signature with peak velocities at 700 m depth of 13.9 cm s<sup>−1</sup> in cyclogeostrophic balance. The eddy has a small radius of 6.2 km corresponding to high Rossby number of −0.45. The vorticity at the eddy center reaches 0.8f. Cross‐stream isopycnic diffusion of tracers between the eddy core and the surroundings is found to be very limited due to dynamical barriers set by the SCV associated with a diffusivity coefficient of about 0.2 m<sup>2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup>. The deep core is nutrients‐depleted with concentrations of nitrate, phosphate, and silicate, 13–18% lower than the rich surrounding waters. However, the nutriclines are shifted of about 20–50 m toward the surface thus increasing the nutrients availability for phytoplankton. Chlorophyll‐a concentrations at the deep chlorophyll maximum are subsequently about twice bigger as compared to outside. Pigments further reveal the predominance of nanophytoplankton inside the eddy and an enhancement of the primary productivity. This study demonstrates the important impact of postconvective SCVs on nutrients distribution and phytoplankton community, as well as on the subsequent primary production and carbon sequestration.
%G English
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%2 https://amu.hal.science/hal-01621729/file/Boss_2017.pdf
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%U https://amu.hal.science/hal-01621729
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