oceanography

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Across
  1. 2. A curve, bend, or loop in a current.
  2. 3. Rings contain discrete parcels of these.
  3. 6. Caused by clockwise circulation at the centre of a warm-core ring.
  4. 8. (2)Type of eddy that has lower height in the centre than the outer lying waters.
  5. 9. Cyclonic cold-core eddies rotate counterclockwise in this hemisphere.
  6. 11. _____ water, surrounding an anticyclonic eddy that increases productivity.
  7. 12. Attracted to anticyclonic eddies.
  8. 14. Anticyclonic warm-core eddies rotate this way in the Northern Hemisphere.
  9. 15. Type of tuna that has breeding grounds associated with eddies.
  10. 18. Cyclonic eddies are known to enhance inputs of these to the surface ocean.
  11. 19. The swirling of a fluid.
  12. 21. Type of mixing caused by the cooling of surface water as a warm-core ring moves north of the Gulf Stream.
  13. 22. (2)Lack of this was observed at the core of a cold-core eddy.
  14. 24. ______Sea , is nutrient poor.
  15. 25. Example of pelagic predators that use eddies.
  16. 27. A swirling green bloom of this was observed in the Gulf of Finland.
Down
  1. 1. Companies impacted by eddies.
  2. 4. Anticyclonic eddies accumulate this type of matter within their cores.
  3. 5. Direction cold-core eddies flow.
  4. 7. Depressed at the centre of a warm-core ring.
  5. 10. A large system of circular ocean currents formed by global wind patterns.
  6. 13. (2)Meanders and rings in this current transport nutrients and plankton.
  7. 16. Type of boundary currents that favour the formation of rings.
  8. 17. Upwelling occurs here in a warm-core ring.
  9. 20. Mesoscale eddies are important for this strategy in marine predators.
  10. 23. Type of turtle that uses eddies to find food.
  11. 26. Eddies and rings cause an upward or downward movement of these.