Jets and Topography: Jet Transitions and the Impact on Transport in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 956-972

  Thompson, Andrew F ^a,b   Sallée, Jean Baptiste ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROCLINICITY; BATHYMETRIC FEATURES; COHERENT JETS; EDDY FLUXES; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; LOCAL DYNAMICS; MEAN FLOW; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE EXCHANGE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; RECIRCULATIONS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE VELOCITY; SYMMETRIC MODEL; TOPOGRAPHIC STEERING; TRANSPORT BARRIER; ZONAL ASYMMETRY;

BATHYMETRY; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY;

TOPOGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRY; CHANNEL FLOW; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; EDDY; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; JET; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC FRONT; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPOGRAPHY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84864515190     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0135.1     Document Type: Article

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