A survey of anticyclonic mesoscale eddies, within the Southern Ocean, and their propagation south from the South West Indian Ridge

• Main Author: Reid, Kirrin Gail
• Other Authors: Ansorge, Isabelle Jane
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Oceanography 2016
• Subjects: Oceanography; Ocean and Climate Dynamics; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Indian; Bain; Bain Fracture Zone; Andrew Bain Fracture Zone; Antarc*; Marion Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24465

Eddies within oceans act as vehicles, transporting smaller bodies of water, with certain oceanographic characteristics, from one place to another within a larger body of water. The South West Indian Ridge [SWIR] is a topographically complex bathymetric feature which amplifies the production of mesos...