Detailed characterization of a cold Antarctic eddy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Swart, Neil C ^a   Ansorge, Isabelle J ^a   Lutjeharms, Johann R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CHARACTERIZATION; ENTHALPY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL;

ALTIMETRY; BATHYMETRY; DISSIPATION; EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MID-INDIAN RIDGE; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES;

EID: 42049097448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004190     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Ansorge, I. J., P. W. Froneman, E. A. Pakhomov, J. R. E. Lutjeharms, R. Perissinotto, and R. C. van Ballegooyen (1999), Physical-biological coupling in the waters surrounding the Prince Edward Islands (Southern Ocean), Polar Biol., 21, 135-145.
2. Ansorge, I. J., and J. R. E. Lutjeharms (2000), Twenty-five years of physical oceanographic research at the Prince Edward Islands, S. Afr. J. Sci., 96, 557-565.
3. Ansorge, I. J., and J. R. E. Lutjeharms (2002), The hydrography and dynamics of the ocean environment of the Prince Edward Islands (Southern Ocean), J. Mar. Syst., 37, 107-127.
4. Ansorge, I. J., and J. R. E. Lutjeharms (2003), Eddies originating from the South-West Indian Ridge, J. Mar Syst., 39, 1-18.
5. Ansorge, I. J., and J. R. E. Lutjeharms (2005), Direct observations of eddy turbulence at a ridge in the Southern Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L14603, doi:10.1029/2005GL022588.
6. Ansorge, I. J., J. R. E. Lutjeharms, N. Swart, and J. V. Durgadoo (2006), Observational evidence for a cross frontal heat pump in the Southern Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19601, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL026174.
7. Belkin, I. M., and A. L. Gordon (1996), Southern Ocean fronts from the Greenwich meridian to Tasmania, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3675-3696.
8. Chelton, D. B., M. G. Schlax, D. L. Witter, and J. G. Richman (1990), Geosat altimeter observations of the surface circulation of the Southern Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 17,877-17,903.
9. Colton, M. T., and R. R. P. Chase (1983), Interaction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current with bottom topography: An investigation using satellite altimetry, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 1825-1843.
10. de las Heras, M. M., and R. Schlitzer (1999), On the importance of intermediate water flows for the global ocean overturning, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 15,515-15,536.
11. de Szoeke, R. A., and M. D. Levine (1981), The advective heat flux of mean geostrophic motions in the Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Res., 28, 1057-1085.
12. Froneman, P. W., I. J. Ansorge, E. A. Pakhomovo, and J. R. E. Lutjeharms (1999), Plankton community structure in the physical environment surrounding the Prince Edward Islands (Southern Qcean), Polar Biol., 22, 145-155.
13. Gille, S. T. (2003), Float observations of the Southern Ocean. Part II: Eddy Fluxes, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33, 1182-1196.
14. Gouretski, V. V., and A. I. Danilov (1994), Characteristics of warm rings in the African sector of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Deep Sea Res. I., 41, 1131-1157.
15. Gründlingh, M. L. (1995), Tracking eddies in the southeast Atlantic and southwest Indian oceans with TOPEX/POSEIDON, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,977-24,986.
16. Hofmann, E. E. (1985), The large scale horizontal structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current from FGGE drifters, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 7087-7097.
17. Holliday, N. P., and J. F. Read (1998), Surface oceanic fronts between Africa and Antarctica, Deep Sea Res. I, 45, 217-238.
18. Ivanov, Y. A., A. Y. Krasnopevtsev, Y. G. Morozov, I. F. Shadrin, and A. D. Shcherbinin (1985), A cyclonic frontal eddy in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Oceanology, 25, 22-25.
19. Jayne, S. R., and J. Marotzke (2002), The oceanic eddy heat transport, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 328-3345.
20. Joyce, M. T. (1977), A note on the lateral mixing of water masses, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 7, 626-629.
21. Joyce, T. M., S. L. Patterson, and R. C. Millard (1981), Anatomy of a cyclonic ring in the Drake Passage, Deep Sea Res., 28, 1265-1287.
22. Keffer, T., and G. Holloway (1988), Estimating Southern Ocean eddy flux of heat and salt from satellite altimetry, Nature, 332, 624-626.
23. Koshlyakov, M. N., Y. M. Grachev, T. G. Sazhina, and M. I. Yaremchuk (1985), A cyclonic eddy in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and heat transport across the Antarctic Front, Oceanology, 25, 685-691.
24. Llido, J., V. Garçon, J. R. E. Lutjeharms, and J. Sudre (2005), Event-scale blooms drive enhanced primary productivity at the Subtropical Convergence, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L15611, doi:10.1029/2005GL022880.
25. Lutjeharms, J. R. E., and D. J. Baker (1980), A statistical analysis of the meso-scale dynamics of the Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Res., 27, 145-159.
26. Lutjeharms, J. R. E. (1988), Meridional heat transport across the Sub-Tropical Convergence by a warm eddy, Nature, 331, 251-253.
27. Lutjeharms, J. R. E., and I. J. Ansorge (2001), The Agulhas Return Current, J. Mar. Syst., 30, 115-138.
28. McCartney, M. S. (1982), The subtropical recirculation of Mode Waters, J. Mar. Res., 40, 427-464.
29. Macdonald, A. M., and C. Wunsch (1996), An estimate of global ocean circulation and heat fluxes, Nature, 382, 436-439.
30. Moore, J. K., M. R. Abbott, and J. G. Richman (1999), Location an dynamics of the Antarctic Polar Front from satellite sea surface temperature data, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 3059-3073.
31. Morrow, R., J. R. Donguy, A. Chaigneau, and S. R. Rintoul (2004), Cold-core anomalies at the subantarctic front, south of Tasmania, Deep Sea Res., 51, 1,417-1,440.
32. Nel, D. C., J. R. E. Lutjeharms, E. A. Pakhomov, I. J. Ansorge, P. G. Ryan, and N. T. W. Klages (2001), Exploitation of mesoscale oceanographic features by grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrystomota in the southern Indian Ocean, Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 217, 15-26.
33. Nowlin, W. D., S. J. Worley, and T. Whitworth (1985), Methods for making point estimates of eddy heat flux as applied to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 3305-3324.
34. Pahnke, K., and R. Zahn (2005), Southern Hemisphere water mass conversion linked with North Atlantic Climate variability, Science, 307, 1741-1746.
35. Pakhomov, E. A., P. W. Froneman, I. J. Ansorge, and J. R. E. Lutjeharms (2000), Temporal variability in the physico-biological environment of the Prince Edward Islands (Southern Ocean), J. Mar. Syst., 26, 75-95.
36. Park, Y. H., L. Gamberoni, and E. Charriaud (1993), Frontal structure, water masses, and circulation in the Crozet Basin, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 12,361-12,385.
37. Park, Y. H., and L. Gamberoni (1995), Large scale circulation and its variability in the south Indian Ocean from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,911-24,929.
38. Park, Y. H., E. Charriaud, and M. Fieux (1998), Thermohaline structure of the Antarctic Surface Water/Winter Water in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, J. Mar. Syst., 17, 5-23.
39. Perissinotto, R., and C. M. Duncombe Rae (1990), Occurrence of anticyclonic eddies on the Prince Edward Plateau (Southern Ocean): Effects on phytoplankton biomass and production, Deep Sea Res., 37, 777-793.
40. Perissinotto, R., J. R. E. Lutjeharms, and R. C. van Ballegooyen (2000), Biological-physical interactions and pelagic productivity at the Prince Edward Islands, Southern Ocean, J. Mar. Syst., 24, 327-341.
41. Peterson, R. G., W. D. Nowlin, and T. Whitworth (1982), Generation and evolution of a cyclonic ring at Drake Passage in early 1979, J. Phys. Ocean., 12, 712-719.
42. Savchenko, V. G., W. J. Emery, and O. A. Vladimirov (1978), A cyclonic eddy in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Australia: Results of Soviet-American observations aboard the R/V Professor Zubov, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 8, 825-837.
43. Sloyan, B. M., and S. R. Rintoul (2001), Circulation, renewal and modification of Antarctic Mode and Intermediate Water, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 1005-1030.
44. Vastano, A. C., J. E. Schmitz, and D. E. Hagan (1980), The physical oceanography of two rings observed by the Cyclonic Ring Experiment, Part I: Physical structures, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 493-513.
45. Williams, R. G. (1988), Modification of ocean eddies by air-sea interaction, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 15,523-15,533.
46. Wunsch, C. (1999), Where do ocean eddy heat fluxes matter?, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 13,235-13,249.