Sources and transport of the deep western boundary current east of the Kerguelen

• Main Authors: Kathleen A. Donohue, Gwyneth E. Huord, Michael S. Mccartney
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Basin; Australian-Antarctic Basin; Kerguelen; Princess Elizabeth Trough; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.393; http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/dynamics/publications/1999grl_dhm.pdf

Abstract. East of the Kerguelen Plateau, a deep western boundary current in the Australian-Antarctic Basin brings cold dense waters north from the margins of Antarctica. Geostrophic velocities referenced to acoustic Doppler cur-rent proler data, both shipboard and lowered, suggest the flow is unidir...