Vertical structure and transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage from direct velocity observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Firing, Yvonne L ^a   Chereskin, Teresa K ^a   Mazloff, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; EXTRAPOLATION;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROTROPIC STRUCTURES; DEPTH DEPENDENCE; DEPTH RANGE; DRAKE PASSAGE; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; ENERGY PROPAGATION; MEAN CURRENTS; SELF-SIMILAR; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; KINETIC ENERGY; SHEAR STRESS; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80052075909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC006999     Document Type: Article

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