Intermediate-depth circulation of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans measured by autonomous floats

• Main Author: Davis, Russ E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2005
• Subjects: Oceanography; General Circulation; Floats; Antarctic; Campbell Plateau; Indian; Kerguelen; New Zealand; Pacific; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1g22j0q8

As part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, 306 autonomous floats were deployed in the tropical and South Pacific Ocean and 228 were deployed in the Indian Ocean to observe the basinwide circulation near 900-m depth. Mean velocities, seasonal variability, and lateral eddy diffusivity from the...