A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1284-1303

  Gladyshev, Sergey ^a   Arhan, Michel ^b   Sokov, Alexey ^a   Speich, Sabrina ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Agulhas eddies; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Bottom circulation; Fronts; Transport; Water masses

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DOPPLER EFFECT; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; AGULHAS EDDIES; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAROCLINIC; BOTTOM CIRCULATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; DRAKE PASSAGE; FRONTS; GRADIENT-BASED; INDIAN OCEANS; LOWER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; RE-CIRCULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBTROPICAL FRONT; TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT ESTIMATES; WATER MASSES; WINTER CONVECTION;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

DEEP WATER; EDDY; HYDROGRAPHY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC FRONT; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ARGENTINE BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE BASIN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENWICH; LONDON [ENGLAND]; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 50349090991     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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