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Intense nutrient upwelling and PV mixing in oceanic anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities

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Numerous observations from the Norwegian Seas to the Southern Ocean show the presence of anomalously high biological activity in anti-cyclonic eddies. This high productivity suggests that upwelling of nutrient-rich water from the thermocline occurs inside anti-cyclonic eddies. However, this upwelling is not captured by existing climate models and so hinders efforts to close the carbon budget. The upwelling process is considered here from a potential vorticity viewpoint. High resolution numerical simulations show intense upwelling of high PV filaments from the thermocline in anti-cyclonic eddies and that the most likely cause of this upwelling is symmetric instability. It is shown that anti-cyclonic eddies are highly unstable to symmetric instability and that this induces mixing of potential vorticity along stratification surfaces with cyclogenesis effects analogous to those in the troposphere.

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