Winds blowing from the southeast along the only significant fetch into Auke Bay mixed nitrate into the photic zone from deeper in the water column; major summer phytoplankton blooms in the bay resulted.The wind-mixing effect could bc monitored by measuring salinity changes in the water column caused by mixing of freshwater from the glacially originating Mender-mall River down into the water column.
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