The dynamical controls on the antarctic circumpolar current with the use of general circulation models

• Main Author: Grezio, Anita
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southampton 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Kerguelen; Drake Passage; Pacific; Curl; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/464679/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/464679/1/843443.pdf

Three general circulation models (FRAM, OCCAM and POP) are used in order to investigate the dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) at the Drake Passage latitudes (ACCB) where the ACC is unbounded. In these models bottom form stress balances the wind stress in the momentum budgets. In th...