| dc.creator | Marín,Víctor H. | |
| dc.creator | Delgado,Luisa E. | |
| dc.date | 2004-01-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-24T21:23:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-24T21:23:32Z | |
| dc.identifier | https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-65382004000300012 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/56782 | |
| dc.description | Squirts can be defined as one-way jets, transporting coastally upwelled water to the deep ocean and terminating in a counterrotating vortex pair. These mesoscale oceanographic structures can export coastal biological production up to 200 km offshore. We describe, based on the analysis of SeaWIFS images, a squirt located in the northern Chilean coast (30° S). Our results show that the spatial structure of the velocity field, and the hammerhead shape, agree with previous conceptual models. We used the circulation data, resulting from feature-tracking analysis, to estimate the offshore export of coastal carbon production. We conclude that squirts represent a net carbon exporting mechanism accounting for 5% to 12% of coastal carbon production | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción | |
| dc.relation | 10.4067/S0717-65382004000300012 | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.source | Gayana (Concepción) v.68 n.2 suppl.TIIProc 2004 | |
| dc.title | S-CHLOROPHYLL SQUIRTS IN THE CHILEAN COAST: A SEAWIFS PERSPECTIVE | |
