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Transport and variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake PassageRepeat hydrography on WOCE section SR1b from 1993 to 2000 |
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Net
average baroclinic transport in the Drake Passage
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The average net baroclinic transport relative to the bottom is 136.7±7.8 Sv for six hydrographic sections across Drake Passage between 1993 and 2000. This transport occurs at three fronts (south to north):
Occasionally the Polar Front and Subantarctic Front merge (1994, 1999) to carry a total transport of order 110 Sv. Between the
Southern ACC Front and Polar Front there is a rich eddy field with recirculations
of order 10 Sv and the average net transport within the eddy field is
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Abstract
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Introduction
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Flux, AABW
temperature and frontal position variability
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Transport
in neutral density layers
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LADCP results
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Comparison
between Drake Passage (SR1) and Australia-Antarctica (SR3) sections
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Stuart
A. Cunningham, Steven G. Alderson, Brian A. King and Mark A. Brandon
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