Strong export of Antarctic Bottom Water east of the Kerguelen plateau

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Fukamachi, Y., Rintoul, S. R., Church, J. A., Aoki, S., Sokolov, S., Rosenberg, M. A., Wakatsuchi, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 452; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Falkland Plateau; Kerguelen; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/44116; https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO842

The primary paths for the transport of Antarctic Bottom Water to the global ocean are the deep western boundary currents east of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Kerguelen plateau. Previous ship-based studies found evidence of the Kerguelen deep western boundary current in the distribution of water p...