PATCHES OF PHYTOPLANKTON IN THE OCEAN DUR ING VARIOUS REGIMES OF OCEANIC TURBULENCE

Peculiarities of diffusion of multiplying admixture (phytoplankton) ar e considered under conditions of various types of oceanic turbulence, two-dimensional and three-dimensional microscale and two and three-dim ensional multiscale. It was shown that several regimes of diffusive pa rticles may be observed: continuous, pulsing, intermittent, and occasi onal. A decrease of the patch sizes and their life time is observed, w hen turbulence is intensified. In the case of multiscale turbulence th e difference between diffusive patches of multiplying phytoplankton an d of conservative admixture becomes negligibly low.