Articles | Volume 12, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2367-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2367-2015
Research article
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23 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2015

Biogeochemical variability in the central equatorial Indian Ocean during the monsoon transition

P. G. Strutton, V. J. Coles, R. R. Hood, R. J. Matear, M. J. McPhaden, and H. E. Phillips

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In 2010, a first-of-its-kind deployment of biological sensors on a mooring in the central Indian Ocean revealed interesting variability in chlorophyll (a proxy for ocean productivity) at timescales of about 2 weeks. Using the mooring data with satellite observations and a biogeochemical model, it was determined that local wind mixing and entrainment, rather than mixed Rossby gravity waves, were likely responsible for much of the observed variability.
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