843 resultados para oceanografía


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[ES] Se aborda el estudio del transporte de sedi-mientos bajo distintas condiciones de olas y distintas intensidades de flujo, utilizando dos muestras de la playa de Las Canteras.

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[ES] Análisis comparativo del crecimiemnto de Daphnia sp determinado con el microscopio estereoscópico y el sistema de análisis de ima-gen, con el objetivo de valorar la capacidad de aplicación de esta técnica informática en estos estudios.

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[ES]La respiración es un proceso fisiológico común a todos los organismos marinos. En los estudios oceanográficos se ha determinado, comúnmente, mediante la cuantificación del consumo de oxígeno de organismos incubados en botellas. Esta metodología es tediosa y lenta, por lo que Packard et al. (1971) propusieron el uso del análisis bioquímico basado en la actividad de las enzimas implicadas en la respiración, el Sistema de Transporte de Electrones (ETS). Este análisis mide la velocidad máxima que dichas enzimas pueden tener, determinando la respiración potencial de los organismos. Dicha velocidad estará controlada por la disponibilidad intracelular de sus sustratos, los piridín nucleótidos (NADH y NADPH). En el presente trabajo, se ha analizado el metabolismo respiratorio, a través de medidas del ETS y de los piridín nucleótidos, tanto en el dinoflagelado Oxyrrhis marina en estudios de laboratorio, como en organismos recogidos del medio marino durante la campaña de circunnavegación MALASPINA 2010

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[EN] Filaments are narrow, shallow structures of cool water originating from the coast. They are typical features of the four main eastern boundary upwelling systems (EBUS). In spite of their significant biological and chemical roles, through the offshore exportation of nutrient-rich waters, the physical processes that generate them are still not completely understood. This paper is a process-oriented study of filament generation mechanisms. Our goal is twofold: firstly, to obtain a numerical solution able to well represent the characteristics of the filament off Cape Ghir (30°38'N, northwestern Africa) in the Canary EBUS and secondly, to explain its formation by a simple mechanism based on the balance of potential vorticity. The first goal is achieved by the use of the ROMS model (Regional Ocean Modeling System) in embedded domains around Cape Ghir, with a horizontal resolution going up to 1.5 km for the finest domain. The latter gets its initial and boundary conditions from a parent solution and is forced by climatological, high-resolution atmospheric fields. The modeled filaments display spatial, temporal and physical characteristics in agreement with the available in situ and satellite observations. This model solution is used as a reference to compare the results with a set of process-oriented experiments. These experiments allow us to reach the second objective. Their respective solution serves to highlight the contribution of various processes in the filament generation. Since the study is focused on general processes present under climatological forcing conditions, inter-annual forcing is not necessary. The underlying idea for the filament generation is the balance of potential vorticity in the Canary EBUS: the upwelling jet is characterized by negative relative vorticity and flows southward along a narrow band of uniform potential vorticity. In the vicinity of the cape, an injection of relative vorticity induced by the wind breaks the existing vorticity balance. The upwelling jet is prevented from continuing its way southward and has to turn offshore to follow lines of equal potential vorticity. The model results highlight the essential role of wind, associated with the particular topography (coastline and bottom) around the cape. The mechanism presented here is general and thus can be applied to other EBUS.

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Programa de Doctorado en Oceanografía

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Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC). Doctorado en oceanografía. Con mención de Calidad de la ANECA

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[ES]Un modelo estacionario propuesto por Joyce (1988a) es evaluado en el Océano Índico ecuatorial, usando el estrés de vientos NCEP y temperaturas y salinidades de WOA05 y Argo. El transporte zonal integrado de los datos WOA05 se parece al de los datos Argo en el monzón de invierno (WM) y en los periodos de transición (TP), presentando valores mayores en el caso de datos Argo. En cambio, para el monzón de verano (SM) los transportes zonales integrados de los datos WOA05 y Argo tienen direcciones opuestas debido a que en los datos de WOA05 la Corriente de Somalia (SC) es débil y casi inexistente. Aunque los datos Argo tienen mayor cantidad de estructuras mesoscalares que los datos WOA05, los datos Argo obtienen una SC que se ajusta mejor a los estudios previos y, en consecuencia, los datos Argos son los únicos que serán utilizados para estimar transporte de volumen y calor. Los datos Argo muestran una SC que fluye hacia el sur durante el WM y hacia el norte durante el SM, y un flujo en el océano interior contrario a la corriente. Durante el WM, la SC es somera (~200dbar) y bajo ella fluye una contracorriente. El transporte de calor meridional estimado para datos Argo muestra una inversión estacional. El transporte de calor neto en cada estación tiene la misma dirección que el calor transportado por la SC.

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[ES] A través de este estudio se han analizado medidas de niveles y corrientes de marea en la plataforma que rodea la isla de Gran Canaria. Los resultados del estudio muestran importantes variaciones en las mareas de la isla.

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[EN] Seamounts are considered to be ??hotspots?? of marine life but, their role in oceans primary productivity is still under discussion. We have studied the microbial community structure and biomass of the epipelagic zone (0?150 m) at two northeast Atlantic seamounts (Seine and Sedlo) and compared those with the surrounding ocean. Results from two cruises to Sedlo and three to Seine are presented. Main results show large temporal and spatial microbial community variability on both seamounts. Both Seine and Sedlo heterotrophic community (abundance and biomass) dominate during winter and summer months, representing 75% (Sedlo, July) to 86% (Seine, November) of the total plankton biomass. In Seine, during springtime the contribution to total plankton biomass is similar (47% autotrophic and 53% heterotrophic). Both seamounts present an autotrophic community structure dominated by small cells (nano and picophytoplankton). It is also during spring that a relatively important contribution (26%) of large cells to total autotrophic biomass is found. In some cases, a ??seamount effect?? is observed on Seine and Sedlo microbial community structure and biomass. In Seine this is only observed during spring through enhancement of large autotrophic cells at the summit and seamount stations. In Sedlo, and despite the observed low biomasses, some clear peaks of picoplankton at the summit or at stations within the seamount area are also observed during summer. Our results suggest that the dominance of heterotrophs is presumably related to the trapping effect of organic matter by seamounts. Nevertheless, the complex circulation around both seamounts with the presence of different sources of mesoscale variability (e.g. presence of meddies, intrusion of African upwelling water) may have contributed to the different patterns of distribution, abundances and also changes observed in the microbial community.

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[EN] Migrant biota transports carbon to the mesopelagic zone due to their feeding at the shallower layers and their defecation, respiration, excretion and mortality at depth. The so-called active flux has been considered a small number compared to gravitational sinking. Recent assessments in subtropical waters show an important effect due to predation by interzonal diel vertical migrants (DVMs). The consumption and subsequent transport of epipelagic zooplankton by DVMs (mainly micronekton) to the mesopelagic zone seemed similar to the mean gravitational export. However, the consequences of this active transport to the bathypelagic zone are almost unknown. Here, we show the effect of the Atlantic and Pacific equatorial upwelling systems on the vertical distribution of acoustic backscatter from the surface to bathypelagic depths. The enhancement of the acoustic signal below the upwelling zone was observed to reach 4000 m depth, coinciding with high abundances and activity of bacteria at those depths. The results suggest an active carbon transport from the epipelagic driven by zooplankton and micronekton, enhancing the efficiency of the biological pump and giving an insight about the fate of an increased productivity at the shallower layers of the ocean

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[ES] Se plantea la cuestión de las prospecciones petrolíferas en aguas de Canarias desde el punto de vista de la geología del petróleo como recurso mineral, como fuente de energía y energías alternativas y el impacto que para la vida marina tendría la posible explotación del petróleo en aguas de Canarias