Sergey Piontkovski¹ , Nikolay Nezlin²

1. Sultan Qaboos University, CAMS, P.O. 34, Al-Khod 123, Sultanate of Oman
2. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, 3535 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, USA
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
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International Journal of Marine Science, 2012, Vol. 2, No. 7   doi: 10.5376/ijms.2012.02.0007
Received: 01 Sep., 2012    Accepted: 06 Oct., 2012    Published: 06 Nov., 2012

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Piontkovski et al., 2012, Mesoscale Eddies of Arabian Sea: Physical-biological Interactions, International Journal of Marine Science, Vol.2, No.7 51-56 (doi: 10.5376/ijms. 2012.02.0007)

Satellite derived (SeaWIFS, TOPEX/Poseidon) products for chlorophyll-a concentration, sea surface heights, and calculated kinetic energy of eddies were employed, to analyze physical-biological coupling from 1997 to 2008. It was shown that, when cyclonic eddies dominated throughout the year, the chlorophyll-a concentration was positively related to the kinetic energy of eddies. For the other years, when the total annual balance of negative to positive sea surface heights was dominated by anticyclonic eddies, the correlation was negative. The evaluated switch contributes a useful detail to the understanding of the mechanism mediating variability of the chlorophyll-a in regions with vigorous eddy fields.

Mesoscale eddies; Arabian Sea; Chlorophyll-a; Remote sensing