Intra-seasonal variability of Southern Ocean primary production: the role of storms and mesoscale turbulence

The Southern Ocean is one of the stormiest places on earth; here strong mid-latitude storms frequently traverse large distances of this ocean. Underlying these passing storms, the Southern Ocean is characterized by having some of the highest eddy kinetic energy ever measured (eddies occupying the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicholson, Sarah-Anne
Other Authors: Lévy, Marina
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22835