Sediment drifts at the eastern Kerguelen Plateau: Achives of climate and circulation development

• Main Authors: Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele, Schneider, Matthias, Gruetzner, Jens, Westerhold, Thomas, Zirck, Eleen
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54500/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.733a7822-306a-4bd8-bdda-dda2ecbf1f39

The Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean rises up 2000 m above the surrounding seafloor and hence forms an obstacle for the flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Antarctic Bottomwater (AABW). The ACC is strongly deviated in its flow towards the north. A branch of the AABW flows...