Modeling the dynamical sinking of biogenic particles in oceanic flow

Monroy, Pedro; Hernández-García, Emilio; Rossi, Vincent; López, Cristóbal

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-293-2017

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Modeling the dynamical sinking of biogenic particles in oceanic flow

Pedro Monroy, Emilio Hernández-García, Vincent Rossi, and Cristóbal López

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Modeling the dynamical sinking of biogenic particles in oceanic flow Pedro Monroy, Emilio Hernández-García, Vincent Rossi, and Cristóbal López https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/8504

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We study the problem of sinking particles in a realistic oceanic flow, with major energetic structures in the mesoscale, focussing on marine biogenic particles. By using a simplified equation of motion for small particles in a mesoscale velocity field, we estimate the influence of physical processes such as the Coriolis force and the particle's inertia, and we conclude that they represent negligible corrections to passive transport by the flow, with added vertical velocity due to gravity.