Sentences with phrase «upper ocean phytoplankton»

The upper ocean phytoplankton blooms are impacted by the rain and impact the thermal structure.

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«These conditions will cause changes in phytoplankton growth and ocean circulation around Antarctica, with the net effect of transferring nutrients from the upper ocean to the deep ocean,» said lead author J. Keith Moore, UCI professor of Earth system science.

In colder oceans, the separating layer (thermocline) does not form, or only for parts of the year, so phytoplankton at the top receives nutrients from the deeper sea and provides oxygen for the the upper and deeper layers (as well as nutrients, when phytoplankton decomposes).

(5) modulation of the upper ocean heating via phytoplankton and their associated optical properties.

Once the CO2 concentration of the upper ocean is depleted by growth and sinking of phytoplankton, the timescale for gas exchange with the atmosphere is about a year for a one - hundred meter ocean mixed layer, typical of the tropics.

Sea butterflies are most abundant in the upper 50 meters of the ocean, grazing on abundant phytoplankton.

Oxygen enters the ocean through two ways: interactions between its surface and the atmosphere, and as a photosynthesis byproduct from phytoplankton in upper layers of the ocean, much in the same way plants on land produce oxygen.

The Ekman upwelling from the wind stress curl associated with these structures plays an important role in ocean circulation theory, as well as in ocean biology from upwelling of nutrients from the deep water into the upper ocean where they can be utilized by phytoplankton.

Phytoplankton in the ocean's upper layer (that is, the populations observed from space) rely on vertical nutrient transport to sustain productivity, so intensified stratification during a rising MEI period (Fig. 2b) is accompanied closely by decreasing NPP (Fig. 2b)(r2 5 0.73, P, 0.005)