Researchers link tiny sea creatures to large-scale ocean mixing

摘要

Using a combination of theoretical modeling, energy calculations, and field observations, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have for the first time described a mechanism that explains how some of the ocean's tiniest swimming animals can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing.rnThe new mechanism was discovered by John Dabiri, a Caltech assistant professor of aeronautics and bioengineering and graduate student Kakani Katija and is described in a recent article in Nature.