On the fast response of the Southern Ocean to changes in the zonal wind

• Main Authors: Webb, David J., de Cuevas, Beverly A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; Deacon; Drake Passage; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/141797/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/141797/1/osd-3-471_p.pdf; http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/os/osd/3/471/osd-3-471.htm

Model studies of the Southern Ocean, reported here, show that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current responds within two days to changes in the zonal wind stress at the latitudes of Drake Passage. Further investigation shows that the response is primarily barotropic and that, as one might expect, it is c...