Acceleration of the antarctic circumpolar current by wind stress along the Coast of Antarctica

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2772-2784

  Zika, Jan D ^a   Le Sommer, Julien ^b   Dufour, Carolina O ^c,d   Naveira Garabato, Alberto ^a   Blaker, Adam ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c LEGI   (France)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; DECADAL TIMESCALE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; TRANSPORT VARIABILITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ZONAL MOMENTUM BALANCE;

EXPERIMENTS; SEA ICE; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; COASTAL ZONE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84886426823     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-091.1     Document Type: Article

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