VOLUME 39 JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY JANUARY 2009 Surface Circulation at the Tip of the Antarctic Peninsula from Drifters

• Main Authors: Andrew F. Thompson, Karen, J. Heywood, Sally E. Thorpe, Angelika H. H. Renner, Armando Trasviña
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; South Scotia Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.231.2016; http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/aft26/publications/Thompson_etal_JPO09.pdf

An array of 40 surface drifters, drogued at 15-m depth, was deployed in February 2007 to the east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula as part of the Antarctic Drifter Experiment: Links to Isobaths and Ecosystems (ADELIE) project. Data obtained from these drifters and from a select number of local...