Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26..851d&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 7, p. 851-854
Physics
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Oceanography: Physical: Western Boundary Currents, Oceanography: Physical: Hydrography, Oceanography: General: Water Masses, Oceanography: General: Arctic And Antarctic Oceanography
Scientific paper
East of the Kerguelen Plateau, a deep western boundary current in the Australian-Antarctic Basin brings cold dense waters north from the margins of Antarctica. Geostrophic velocities referenced to acoustic Doppler current profiler data, both shipboard and lowered, suggest the flow is unidirectional throughout the water column with estimated northwestward transport below potential temperature 1°C of 28+/-7×106m3s-1 and 49+/-9×106m3s-1, respectively. Hydrographic and acoustic Doppler current profiler data show that the deep boundary current is supplied by northward flow emerging from the confluence of westward flow along the Antarctic continental slope and eastward flow of Weddell Basin waters through the Princess Elizabeth Trough to the south of the Kerguelen Plateau.
Donohue Kathleen A.
Hufford Gwyneth E.
McCartney Michael S.
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