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Because it happens:
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- plankton and mesoscale flows are
ubiquitous
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in the oceans
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Yet we have little understanding of their interactions
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Patchiness problem:
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- countless observations reveal
heterogeneity in
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plankton distributions at all scales
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The causes are still hotly debated – physics or biology?
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Production:
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- large scale simulations show production
increases
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with resolution
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- process studies show that mixing is a
strong control
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of production at the mesoscale and sub-mesoscale
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GCCMs fail to resolve these scales – at what cost?
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