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Science 25 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5875, p. 448
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152111
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Technical Comments

Comment on "Eddy/Wind Interactions Stimulate Extraordinary Mid-Ocean Plankton Blooms"

Amala Mahadevan,1* Leif N. Thomas,2 Amit Tandon3

McGillicuddy et al. (Reports, 18 May 2007, p. 1021) proposed that eddy/wind interactions enhance the vertical nutrient flux in mode-water eddies, thus feeding large mid-ocean plankton blooms. We argue that the supply of nutrients to ocean eddies is most likely affected by submesoscale processes that act along the periphery of eddies and can induce vertical velocities several times larger than those due to eddy/wind interactions.

1 Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
3 Physics Department and Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: amala{at}bu.edu

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