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