Strong export of Antarctic Bottom Water east of the Kerguelen plateau

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 327-331

  Fukamachi, Y ^a   Rintoul, S R ^b,c   Church, J A ^b,c   Aoki, S ^a   Sokolov, S ^b,c   Rosenberg, M A ^c   Wakatsuchi, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CURRENT VELOCITY; DENSE WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FALKLAND PLATEAU; INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77951982349     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo842     Document Type: Article

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