The establishment of a pelagic Sargassum population in the tropical Atlantic: biological consequences of a basin-scale long distance dispersal event
Progress in Oceanography(2020)
Abstract
•Sargassum was exported to the tropical Atlantic during the 2009–2010 NAO anomaly.•Windage is required to reproduce the observed Sargassum distributions.•Exceeding a biosphere tipping point may have led to a tropical Atlantic Sargasso Sea.•Sargassum is aggregated seasonally by Inter‐Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) winds.•Growth in the central tropical Atlantic is enhanced by vertical mixing dynamics.
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Key words
North Atlantic Ocean,Sargasso Sea,Tropical Atlantic,Caribbean Sea,Sargassum,North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO),Windage,Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ),Ekman pumping,Mixed layer depth
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