Deep-Sea Research II 49 (2002) 4715–4742 On the export of Antarctic Bottom Water from the

• Main Authors: Weddell Sea, Alberto C. Naveira Garabatoa, Elaine L. Mcdonagha, David P. Stevensb, Karen J. Heywooda, Richard J. S
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Indian; Scotia Sea; South Scotia Ridge; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.510.9459; http://www.uea.ac.uk/~dps/publications/NGMSHS02.pdf

A survey of the current field over the South Scotia Ridge, obtained with a lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (LADCP), is presented. There is a pattern of northward (southward) flow on the western (eastern) side of each of four deep passages in the ridge, which is supported by tracer measurem...