• Login
    About WHOAS
    View Item 
    •   WHOAS Home
    • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • Biology
    • View Item
    •   WHOAS Home
    • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • Biology
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of WHOASCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesKeywordsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesKeywords

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Does the marine biosphere mix the ocean?

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    JMR_64_541.pdf (367.1Kb)
    Date
    2006-07
    Author
    Dewar, William K.  Concept link
    Bingham, Rory J.  Concept link
    Iverson, R. L.  Concept link
    Nowacek, Douglas P.  Concept link
    St. Laurent, Louis C.  Concept link
    Wiebe, Peter H.  Concept link
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1501
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1357/002224006778715720
    DOI
    10.1357/002224006778715720
    Abstract
    Ocean mixing is thought to control the climatically important oceanic overturning circulation. Here we argue the marine biosphere, by a mechanism like the bioturbation occurring in marine sediments, mixes the oceans as effectively as the winds and tides. This statement is derived ultimately from an estimated 62.7 TeraWatts of chemical power provided to the marine environment in net primary production. Various approaches argue something like 1% (.63 TeraWatts) of this power is invested in aphotic ocean mechanical energy, a rate comparable to wind and tidal inputs.
    Description
    Author Posting. © Sears Foundation for Marine Research, 2006. This article is posted here by permission of Sears Foundation for Marine Research for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Marine Research 64 (2006): 541-561, doi:10.1357/002224006778715720.
    Collections
    • Biology
    Suggested Citation
    Journal of Marine Research 64 (2006): 541-561
     

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Thumbnail

      The role of season and salinity in influencing barnacle distributions in two adjacent coastal mangrove lagoons 

      Starczak, Victoria R.; Perez-Brunius, Paula; Levine, Hazel E.; Gyory, Joanna; Pineda, Jesus (University of Miami - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 2011-07-01)
      Barnacles are often abundant on roots and branches of mangrove trees in tidal channels and coastal lagoons of the Pacific coast of Panama. Yet, in some coastal lagoons, barnacles are absent. We investigated pre- and ...
    • Thumbnail

      Rebecca and Donald Lancefield with Mary Huettner 

      Huettner, Alfred F. (Alfred Francis), b. 1884 (Marine Biological Laboratory Archives, 2012-05-15)
    • Thumbnail

      George Howard Parker 

      Unknown author (Marine Biological Laboratory Archives, 2012-06-11)
    All Items in WHOAS are protected by original copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. WHOAS also supports the use of the Creative Commons licenses for original content.
    A service of the MBLWHOI Library | About WHOAS
    Contact Us | Send Feedback | Privacy Policy