Circulation de bord ouest de l'Atlantique Sud: analyse d'observations lagrangiennes et hydrologiques

• Main Author: Legeais, Jean-francois
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: Université de Bretagne Occidentale 2008
• Subjects: Mesoscale activity; Bathymetry; Hydrological transect; IWBC; AAIW; Western boundary; South Atlantic; Lagrangian floats; Activité de méso échelle; Bathymétrie; Radiale hydrologique; Bord ouest; Atlantique Sud; Flotteur lagrangien; Antarctic; Retour; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctique*; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/these-6177.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/6177/

The "World Ocean Circulation experiment" (WOCE) program in the 1990s has produced the equivalent of 300 years of subsurface floats trajectories within the Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) at 800dbar in the South Atlantic ocean, and several hydrological transects. In order to compute the...