Advection: supply/loss to GOM
Hypotheses
•Large-scale geostrophic wind-driven currents will be strong for isobaths which are not closed.
•Wilkinson and Jordan Basins (which have closed isobaths) will retain diapausers efficiently, while Georges Basin (which does not have a closed 200 m isobath) may lose or gain organisms through the NEC to and from the shelf/slope and the MAB.
•Deep-water circulation may cause some loss of animals out through the GSC.
•The counterclockwise gyre circulation in the basins may drive a bottom Ekman current that can concentrate diapausers in the deep basins.