Nikolaos Skliris

Jul 19, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Robert Marsh |European Way |Nikolaos Skliris |Emma Tompkins

Basin scaleFollowing the first proliferation of sargassum in the Equatorial Atlantic in 2011, each year has brought variable amounts, distribution, and timing of sargassum blooms, forming the GASB that is associated with surface convergence under prevailing winds [2]. Several studies have explored the physical drivers of basin-scale sargassum proliferation and drift [29,30,34,43–47]. In Fig 3, we summarise a range of drivers that have been considered to explain the GASB. Fig 3.