What Do We Know?

Abstract

Role and effects:  CEs/AEs transfer large amounts of heat, mass, momentum and biogeochemical properties from their regions of formation to remote areas where they impact budgets of the tracers and influence the ocean-atmosphere interactions and  the vertical movements observed in the interior of CEs/AEs can transport, mix and vertically redistribute these tracers and impact their global budgets [Falkowski et al.  Through the physical and biological environments can impact the whole marine ecosystem from plankton distribution to higher trophic levels [Bakun, 2006,