Subantarctic mode water: Distribution and circulation

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-126

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Circulation; Montgomery streamfunction; Potential vorticity; Spatial distribution; Subantarctic mode water

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; DENSITY SURFACES; HOTSPOTS; MONTGOMERY; NUTRIENT BUDGETS; OCEANIC BASIN; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; WATER MASS; WATER PROPERTIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; VORTICITY;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; GYRE; MODE WATER; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC FRONT; OVERTURN; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; SUBDUCTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRACER;

EID: 79551527590     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0352-9     Document Type: Article

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