Observations of a diapycnal shortcut to adiabatic upwelling of Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7950-7956

  Silvester, J Mead ^a,b   Lenn, Yueng Djern ^b   Polton, Jeff A ^a   Rippeth, Tom P ^b   Maqueda, M Morales ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adiabatic upwelling; diapycnal mixing; dissipation; internal tide; meridional overturning circulation; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MIXING; RAY TRACING; TIDES; TURBULENCE;

ADIABATIC UPWELLING; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; INTERNAL TIDES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DISSIPATION; INTERNAL TIDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TIDAL CYCLE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFORMATION; UPWELLING; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTICA; ELEPHANT ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84923320795     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061538     Document Type: Article

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