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Influence Of Tides And Mesoscale Eddies In The Ross Sea, Stefanie Lynn Mack
Influence Of Tides And Mesoscale Eddies In The Ross Sea, Stefanie Lynn Mack
OES Theses and Dissertations
The Ross Sea is the most biologically productive region in the Southern Ocean. Primary production is controlled by dissolved iron (dFe), a limiting micronutrient. The main focus of this thesis, motivated by the PRISM-RS project, is to investigate how tides and mesoscale eddies affect the pathways of dFe to the surface ocean.
A regional ocean model with four hindcast simulations are used. Tidal forcing is added to simulations and mesoscale eddies are resolved by changing the horizontal grid resolution from 5 to 1.5 km. Simulations cover 1.5 years, ending at the time of the PRISM-RS cruise in early 2012. An …