A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian .
International audience The properties and circulation of water masses leaving and entering the Atlantic Ocean south of Africa are examined using data from a hydrographic and Lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current...
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ftunivbrest:oai:HAL:hal-00405453v1 2023-12-17T10:19:42+01:00 A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . Gladyshev, Sergey Arhan, Michel Sokov, Alexey Speich, Sabrina Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Shirschov Institute of Oceanology Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2008-10 https://hal.science/hal-00405453 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009 hal-00405453 https://hal.science/hal-00405453 doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009 ISSN: 0967-0637 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers https://hal.science/hal-00405453 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2008, 55 (10), pp.128461303. ⟨10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009⟩ Antarctic Circumpolar Current Agulhas eddies Transport Bottom circulation Fronts Water masses [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2008 ftunivbrest https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009 2023-11-21T23:38:19Z International audience The properties and circulation of water masses leaving and entering the Atlantic Ocean south of Africa are examined using data from a hydrographic and Lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). At the upper levels, the ACC fronts are well determined using either classical water mass definitions or gradient-based criteria. While the locations of the Subantarctic Front (SAF), Polar Front (PF), and Southern ACC Front (SACCF) seem controlled by the neighbouring ridges, that of the Subtropical Front (STF) is much influenced in this region (not, vert, similar10°E) by northwestward propagating Agulhas rings. No large amount of Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) is observed, but two varieties of vertically homogeneous water are found in eddies detached from the Agulhas retroflection: one is remotely (Indian Ocean) formed SAMW, and the other a local variety formed through winter convection in some eddies. The deep front imprints allow one to recognize lower circumpolar deep water (LCDW) from the Drake Passage (south of the SACCF), a mix of LCDW and North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) injected in the ACC in the Argentine Basin (between the PF and STF), and diluted NADW from a southeastward pathway along the African continental slope (north of the STF in these data). The abyssal circulation, much controlled by ridges transverse to the ACC, shows a westward entry of diluted WSDW into the Cape Basin below the PF and two cyclonic patterns in the southern and central Cape Basin superimposed on a wider eastward trend. Transport estimates are given for the ACC, its fronts, and the abyssal circulation. The baroclinic and total ACC transports are not, vert, similar136 and not, vert, similar153 Sv, respectively. Bottom-intensified westward flows O(20 Sv) have only a limited effect on the ACC net transport, being laterally compensated. They, however, affect the frontal structure: the not, vert, similar15 Sv entry of diluted ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Drake Passage NADW North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Université de Bretagne Occidentale: HAL Antarctic Argentine Drake Passage Greenwich Indian The Antarctic Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 55 10 1284 1303 |
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current Agulhas eddies Transport Bottom circulation Fronts Water masses [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography Gladyshev, Sergey Arhan, Michel Sokov, Alexey Speich, Sabrina A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . |
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International audience The properties and circulation of water masses leaving and entering the Atlantic Ocean south of Africa are examined using data from a hydrographic and Lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). At the upper levels, the ACC fronts are well determined using either classical water mass definitions or gradient-based criteria. While the locations of the Subantarctic Front (SAF), Polar Front (PF), and Southern ACC Front (SACCF) seem controlled by the neighbouring ridges, that of the Subtropical Front (STF) is much influenced in this region (not, vert, similar10°E) by northwestward propagating Agulhas rings. No large amount of Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) is observed, but two varieties of vertically homogeneous water are found in eddies detached from the Agulhas retroflection: one is remotely (Indian Ocean) formed SAMW, and the other a local variety formed through winter convection in some eddies. The deep front imprints allow one to recognize lower circumpolar deep water (LCDW) from the Drake Passage (south of the SACCF), a mix of LCDW and North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) injected in the ACC in the Argentine Basin (between the PF and STF), and diluted NADW from a southeastward pathway along the African continental slope (north of the STF in these data). The abyssal circulation, much controlled by ridges transverse to the ACC, shows a westward entry of diluted WSDW into the Cape Basin below the PF and two cyclonic patterns in the southern and central Cape Basin superimposed on a wider eastward trend. Transport estimates are given for the ACC, its fronts, and the abyssal circulation. The baroclinic and total ACC transports are not, vert, similar136 and not, vert, similar153 Sv, respectively. Bottom-intensified westward flows O(20 Sv) have only a limited effect on the ACC net transport, being laterally compensated. They, however, affect the frontal structure: the not, vert, similar15 Sv entry of diluted ... |
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Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Shirschov Institute of Oceanology Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . |
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A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . |
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A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . |
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A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . |
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A hydrographic section from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at the Greenwich meridian . |
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hydrographic section from south africa to the southern limit of the antarctic circumpolar current at the greenwich meridian . |
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ISSN: 0967-0637 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers https://hal.science/hal-00405453 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2008, 55 (10), pp.128461303. ⟨10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.009⟩ |
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