Turbulence and coherent circulation structures, such as submesoscale and mesoscale eddies, convective plumes and Langmuir cells, play a critical role in shaping phytoplankton spatial distribution and population dynamics. We use a framework of advection-reaction-diffusion equations to investigate the effects of turbulent transport on the phytoplankton population growth and its spatial structure ...

The depth of the Labrador Sea mixed layer during winter convection is a balance between atmospheric buoyancy loss and lateral exchange, notoriously difficult to represent accurately in ocean climate models. This study shows that exchanges heat salt shelf interior are smaller regional coupled ocean–sea ice model at higher vertical resolution (75 levels compared with 50 levels), due part altered ...