Sustained monitoring of the Southern Ocean at Drake Passage: Past achievements and future priorities

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Meredith, Michael P ^a   Woodworth, Philip L ^b   Chereskin, Teresa K ^c   Marshall, David P ^d   Allison, Lesley C ^e   Bigg, Grant R ^f   Donohue, Kathy ^g   Heywood, Karen J ^h   Hughes, Chris W ^b   Hibbert, Angela ⁱ   Hogg, Andrew McC ^j   Johnson, Helen L ^d   Jullion, Loïc ^b   King, Brian A ^b   Leach, Harry ⁱ   Lenn, Yueng Djern ^k   Maqueda, Miguel A Morales ^b   Munday, David R ^d   Garabato, Alberto C Naveira ^b   Provost, Christine ^l   Sallée, Jean Baptiste ^a   Sprintall, Janet ^c   more..

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^j AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DRAKE PASSAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; INTERANNUAL; INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES; KEY VARIABLES; LOWER LIMB; MONITORING PROGRAMS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL COORDINATION; TIME VARYING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

MONITORING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OVERTURN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 82955177009     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RG000348     Document Type: Review

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