Regional circulation around Heard and McDonald Islands and through the Fawn Trough, central Kerguelen Plateau

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 653-669

  van Wijk, Esmee M ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^b   Ronai, Belinda M ^a   Williams, Guy D ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Circulation; Fawn Trough; Heard Island; Kerguelen Plateau; Polar Front

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ARGO FLOAT; BAROCLINIC TRANSPORT; BOTTOM WATER; CHLOROPHYLL A; COLD WINTER; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; DEEP WATER; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; FAR NORTH; FLOWTHROUGH; HIGH RESOLUTION; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; LOWER BOUNDS; MC-DONALD; MIXED LAYER; POLAR FRONT; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHLOROPHYLL; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PORPHYRINS; SATELLITES;

LANDFORMS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DEEP WATER; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POLAR FRONT; PREDATOR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBMARINE CANYON; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

FAWN TROUGH; HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77951109186     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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