Figure 6

Figure 6 | Settled sediment thickness (m) as a function of distance from the source are shown with 1 black (average) and 2 red (maximum) lines computed in numerical Experiments III under eddy impact using two vertical mixing schemes: KL10⁶⁸ (bold) and PP81⁶⁷ (thin). Cyan lines 3 show the averaged (solid) and maximum (dashed) thickness of sediments settled during the other 10 days of SPM release, when the impact of the eddy vanished. Yellow symbols 4 show JGOFS^77,78,79,80 sediment trap rates and their location in Eastern Pacific. Symbols 5,6 show visual and measured data from 15 sediment traps collected in BIE^50,51, while empty diamonds show BIE trap values scaled by suspended mass ratio R=31.8 over 10 days between this numerical experiment (454,756t) and in-situ BIE trials , when 1,427t of sediments were dispersed during 19 days at a rate of 4.2 kg·s^-1 by a six-meter-wide “benthic disturber” that was towed in 49 parallel rows within a 3300 m × 150 m polygon) ⁵¹.Green line 3 indicates the natural sedimentation rate at two A5 stations ⁵³. High_Res_Figure 6 (https://figshare.com/s/d984083a59832f4227ea) and Table 3 are available on-line via Supplementary Info. Figure was plotted using MATLAB R2015b (http://www.mathworks.com/). The map in this figure was generated by MATLAB R2015b with M_Map (a mapping package, http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html)