Mean Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport measured in Drake Passage

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 11,760-11,767

  Donohue, K A ^a   Tracey, K L ^a   Watts, D R ^a   Chidichimo, M P ^b,c,d   Chereskin, T K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Southern Ocean; transport

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BAROCLINIC TRANSPORT; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; PAUCITY OF DATA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TRANSPORT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BENCHMARKING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OCEAN BASIN; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 85003889010     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070319     Document Type: Article

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