Circumpolar View of the Southern Ocean from 1962 to 1992

• Main Author: Arnold Gordon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Oceanography Society 2012
• Subjects: Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Eltanin; Ice Station Weddell; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Antarctic; Orcadas; Weddell; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b2216c67b3b34aabb1f69ccd1b4ccf26

The 1962–1992 period spanning the research vessel Eltanin/Islas Orcadas expeditions to Ice Station Weddell, and the following World Ocean Circulation Experiment, may be viewed as the closing phase of an era of broad-based, circumpolar surveys of the Southern Ocean. Today's investigations of the...