Subantarctic mode water variability influenced by mesoscale eddies south of Tasmania

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Herraiz Borreguero, Laura ^a,b   Rintoul, Stephen R ^a,b,c  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

ALIASING; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; DEEP MIXING; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; FORMATION PROCESS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUTRIENT BUDGETS; RECIRCULATIONS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBANTARCTIC ZONES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON BUDGET; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; FRESHWATER INPUT; HEAT BUDGET; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODE WATER; NUTRIENT BUDGET; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; SUBDUCTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 77953570962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005146     Document Type: Article

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