Marine fronts at the continental shelves of austral South America: physical and ecological processes

EM Acha, HW Mianzan, RA Guerrero, M Favero… - Journal of Marine …, 2004 - Elsevier
Neritic fronts are very abundant in austral South America, covering several scales of space
and time. However, this region is poorly studied from a systemic point of view. Our main goal …

On the total geostrophic circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean: Flow patterns, tracers, and transports

JL Reid - Progress in Oceanography, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract The South Atlantic Ocean receives waters from the North Atlantic, the Weddell Sea,
and from the Circumpolar Current through the Drake Passage. The circumpolar and North …

On the meridional extent and fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

AH Orsi, T Whitworth III, WD Nowlin Jr - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 1995 - Elsevier
Large-scale features of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) are described using all
historical hydrographic data available from the Southern Ocean. The geopotential anomaly …

Interocean exchange of thermocline water

AL Gordon - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
Formation of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) represents a transfer of upper layer water to
abyssal depths at a rate of 15 to 20× 106 m3/s. NADW spreads throughout the Atlantic …

Sedimentary nitrogen isotopic ratio as a recorder for surface ocean nitrate utilization

MA Altabet, R Francois - Global biogeochemical cycles, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
In two contrasting regions of the ocean, the equatorial Pacific and the southern ocean, the
δ15N of core top sediments were strongly related to [NO3−] in surface waters. With distance …

[HTML][HTML] An eddy-permitting Southern Ocean state estimate

MR Mazloff, P Heimbach… - Journal of Physical …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
Volume 40 Issue 5 (2010) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo …

Southern Ocean fronts from the Greenwich meridian to Tasmania

IM Belkin, AL Gordon - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
All available meridional sections have been analyzed to investigate the evolution of main
fronts between 0° and 150° E. The central South Atlantic is featured by the Subtropical …

The Antarctic circumpolar current system

SR Rintoul, CW Hughes, D Olbers - International geophysics, 2001 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC) system.
It illustrates the recent observations of the structure and transport of the ACC. Numerical and …

Phytoplankton chlorophyll distributions and primary production in the Southern Ocean

JK Moore, MR Abbott - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite ocean color data from the Sea‐viewing Wide Field‐of‐view Sensor (SeaWiFS) were
used to examine distributions of chlorophyll concentration within the Southern Ocean for the …

[책][B] Biology of the southern ocean

GA Knox - 2006 - taylorfrancis.com
First published in 1993, The Biology of the Southern Ocean has been referred to as
international research at its best and an invaluable reference. Drawing on the considerable …