“Flashes” of Chlorophyll-a Concentration Derived from in Situ and Remote Sensing Data at the Polar Front in the Barents Sea
Journal: The Open Oceanography Journal
Year: 2011

The Polar Front Zone (PFZ) in the Barents Sea is an area where warm, salty water of the North Atlantic (AtW) interacts with cold, less dense, Arctic water (ArW) and the fresher water produced by melting ice (MW). In the spring a large-scale transformation of the structure of the PFZ is accompanied by the development of mesoscale eddies with characteristic sizes of 25 to 40 km. The vertical velocity in the centre of such cyclonic eddies can be up to 20 m/day, transporting deep water with high nut