Where do winds drive the antarctic circumpolar current?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Allison, L C ^a   Johnson, H L ^b   Marshall, D P ^b   Munday, D R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROCLINIC; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODELING; SATURATED REGIME; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; WESTERLY; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954406395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043355     Document Type: Article

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