Campbell Plateau: A major control on the SW Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean circulation

• Main Authors: Forcén-Vázquez, Aitana, Williams, Michael J. M., Bowen, Melissa, Carter, Lionel, Bostock, Helen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bounty Trough; Campbell Plateau; New Zealand; Pacific; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2017-36; https://os.copernicus.org/preprints/os-2017-36/

New Zealand’s subantarctic region is a dynamic oceanographic zone with the Subtropical Front (STF) to the north and the Subantarctic Front (SAF) to the south. Both the fronts and their associated currents are strongly influenced by topography: the South Island of New Zealand and the Chatham Rise for...