Circumpolar Current (ACC) crossing the Kerguelen Plateau

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• Subjects: Kerguelen Plateau; Geophys. Res. Lett; 36; L18603; doi; 10.1029; Fawn Trough; Heard; Indian; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; McDonald Islands; Princess Elizabeth Trough; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.635.2906; http://hal-ups-tlse.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/42/51/40/PDF/grl26273.pdf

were directly observed during the 2009 Track cruise. The net eastward transport to the south of the Heard/McDonald Islands is estimated as 56 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s1), 43 Sv of which is tightly channelled into the Fawn Trough that appears as a predominant cross-plateau gateway of circumpolar flow assoc...