Antarctic Circumpolar Current Transport Through Drake Passage: What Can We Learn From Comparing High-resolution Model Results To Observations?

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Other Authors: Xu, Xiaobiao (author), Chassignet, Eric P. (author), Firing, Yvonne L. (author), Donohue, Kathleen (author)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Drake Passage; Shackleton; Shackleton Fracture Zone; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016365

Uncertainty exists in the time-mean total transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current. The two most recent observational programs in Drake Passage, DRAKE and cDrake, yielded transports of 141 and 173.3 Sv, respectively. In this paper, we use a reali...