Publications by Bieito Fernandez Castro

Spatial Variability of Turbulent Mixing From an Underwater Glider in a Large, Deep, Stratified Lake

Alfred Johny Wüest, Sébastien Lavanchy, Damien Bouffard, Bieito Fernandez Castro, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner, Alexander Lebaron Forrest

Recent efforts using microstructure turbulence measurements have contributed to our understanding of the overall energy budget in lakes and linkages to vertical fluxes. A paucity of lake-wide turbulence measurements hinders our ability to assess how repres ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2023

Primary and Net Ecosystem Production in a Large Lake Diagnosed From High-Resolution Oxygen Measurements

Alfred Johny Wüest, Bieito Fernandez Castro, Pascal Perolo, Hannah Elisa Chmiel, Shubham Krishna, Camille Roland Marie Minaudo

The rates of gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (R), and net ecosystem production (NEP) provide quantitative information about the cycling of carbon and energy in aquatic ecosystems. In lakes, metabolic rates are often diagnosed from die ...

American Geophysical Union2021

Mixing and Phytoplankton Growth in an Upwelling System

Bieito Fernandez Castro

Previous studies focused on understanding the role of physical drivers on phytoplankton bloom formation mainly used indirect estimates of turbulent mixing. Here we use weekly observations of microstructure turbulence, dissolved inorganic nutrients, chlorop ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Accounting for surface waves improves gas flux estimation at high wind speed in a large lake

Bieito Fernandez Castro

The gas transfer velocity (k) is a major source of uncertainty when assessing the magnitude of lake gas exchange with the atmosphere. For the diversity of existing empirical and process-based k models, the transfer velocity increases with the level of turb ...

2021

Seasonality modulates wind-driven mixing pathways in a large lake

Alfred Johny Wüest, Bieito Fernandez Castro, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner, Hugo Nicolás Ulloa Sánchez, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Turbulent mixing controls the vertical transfer of heat, gases and nutrients in stratified water bodies, shaping their response to environmental forcing. Nevertheless, due to technical limitations, the redistribution of wind-derived energy fuelling turbule ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

A multi-site, year-round turbulence microstructure atlas for the deep perialpine Lake Garda

Bieito Fernandez Castro, Marco Toffolon, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

A multi-site, year-round dataset comprising a total of 606 high-resolution turbulence microstructure profiles of shear and temperature gradient in the upper 100 m depth is made available for Lake Garda (Italy). Concurrent meteorological data were measured ...

2021

Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Bieito Fernandez Castro, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner

Harmful blooms of the filamentous cyanobacteria Planktothrix rubescens have become common in many lakes as they have recovered from eutrophication over the last decades. These cyanobacteria, capable of regulating their vertical position, often flourish at ...

2021

Correction to: Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake (vol 83, 38, 2021)

Alfred Johny Wüest, Bieito Fernandez Castro, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner

2021

Breaking of Internal Waves and Turbulent Dissipation in an Anticyclonic Mode Water Eddy

Bieito Fernandez Castro

A four-month glider mission was analyzed to assess turbulent dissipation in an anticyclonic eddy at the western boundary of the subtropical North Atlantic. The eddy (radius ≈ 60 km) had a core of low potential vorticity between 100–450 m, with maximum radi ...

2020

Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Production and Export by Meridional Overturning in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic

Bieito Fernandez Castro

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is produced in the surface and exported towards the deep ocean, adding similar to 2 PgC/year to the global carbon export. Due to its central role in the Meridional Overturning Circulation, the eastern subpolar North Atlantic ...

2019