The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia
Hydrographic and lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler data along a line from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia via the Maurice Ewing Bank are used to estimate the flow of circumpolar water into the Argentine Basin, and to study the interaction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current with the F...
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ftuniveastangl:oai:ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk:15922 2023-06-06T11:46:18+02:00 The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Arhan, Michel Naveira Garabato, Alberto C. Heywood, Karen J. Stevens, David P. 2002 application/pdf https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15922/ https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15922/1/DS_28.pdf https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1914:TACCBT>2.0.CO;2 en eng https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15922/1/DS_28.pdf Arhan, Michel, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Heywood, Karen J. and Stevens, David P. (2002) The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32 (6). pp. 1914-1931. ISSN 0022-3670 doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1914:TACCBT>2.0.CO;2 Article PeerReviewed 2002 ftuniveastangl https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1914:TACCBT>2.0.CO;2 2023-04-13T22:31:21Z Hydrographic and lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler data along a line from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia via the Maurice Ewing Bank are used to estimate the flow of circumpolar water into the Argentine Basin, and to study the interaction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current with the Falkland Plateau. The estimated net transport of 129 ± 21 Sv (Sv = 106 m3 s-1) across the section is shared between three major current bands. One is associated with the Subantarctic Front (SAF; 52 ± 6 Sv), and the other two with branches of the Polar Front (PF) over the sill of the Falkland Plateau (44 ± 9 Sv) and in the northwestern Georgia Basin (45 ± 9 Sv). The latter includes a local reinforcement (20 Sv) by a deep anticyclonic recirculation around the Maurice Ewing Bank. While the classical hydrographic signature of the PF stands out in this eastbound branch, it is less distinguishable in the northbound branch over the plateau. Other circulation features are a southward entrainment of diluted North Atlantic Deep Water from the Argentine Basin over the eastern part of the Falkland Plateau, and an abyssal anticyclonic flow in the western Georgia Basin, opposite to what was generally assumed. The different behavior of the SAF and PF at the Falkland Plateau (no structural modification of the former and partitioning of the latter) is attributed to the PF being deeper than the sill depth on the upstream side of the plateau, unlike the SAF. It is suggested that the partitioning takes place at a location where the 2500-m and 3000-m isobaths diverge at the southern edge of the plateau. The western branch of the PF crosses the plateau at a distance of 250 km to the east of the SAF. Comparison with a section across the Falkland Current farther downstream shows that its deep part subsequently joins the SAF on the northern side of the plateau where the 2000–3000 m isobaths converge in the steep Falkland Escarpment. The result of this two-stage bathymetric effect is a net transfer of at least 10 Sv from the PF to the SAF at ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic University of East Anglia: UEA Digital Repository Antarctic The Antarctic Argentine Maurice ENVELOPE(-55.817,-55.817,-63.133,-63.133) Ewing ENVELOPE(-61.257,-61.257,-69.924,-69.924) Falkland Plateau ENVELOPE(-50.000,-50.000,-51.000,-51.000) Georgia Basin ENVELOPE(-35.500,-35.500,-50.750,-50.750) Maurice Ewing Bank ENVELOPE(-43.500,-43.500,-50.667,-50.667) Falkland Escarpment ENVELOPE(-45.000,-45.000,-50.000,-50.000) |
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Hydrographic and lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler data along a line from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia via the Maurice Ewing Bank are used to estimate the flow of circumpolar water into the Argentine Basin, and to study the interaction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current with the Falkland Plateau. The estimated net transport of 129 ± 21 Sv (Sv = 106 m3 s-1) across the section is shared between three major current bands. One is associated with the Subantarctic Front (SAF; 52 ± 6 Sv), and the other two with branches of the Polar Front (PF) over the sill of the Falkland Plateau (44 ± 9 Sv) and in the northwestern Georgia Basin (45 ± 9 Sv). The latter includes a local reinforcement (20 Sv) by a deep anticyclonic recirculation around the Maurice Ewing Bank. While the classical hydrographic signature of the PF stands out in this eastbound branch, it is less distinguishable in the northbound branch over the plateau. Other circulation features are a southward entrainment of diluted North Atlantic Deep Water from the Argentine Basin over the eastern part of the Falkland Plateau, and an abyssal anticyclonic flow in the western Georgia Basin, opposite to what was generally assumed. The different behavior of the SAF and PF at the Falkland Plateau (no structural modification of the former and partitioning of the latter) is attributed to the PF being deeper than the sill depth on the upstream side of the plateau, unlike the SAF. It is suggested that the partitioning takes place at a location where the 2500-m and 3000-m isobaths diverge at the southern edge of the plateau. The western branch of the PF crosses the plateau at a distance of 250 km to the east of the SAF. Comparison with a section across the Falkland Current farther downstream shows that its deep part subsequently joins the SAF on the northern side of the plateau where the 2000–3000 m isobaths converge in the steep Falkland Escarpment. The result of this two-stage bathymetric effect is a net transfer of at least 10 Sv from the PF to the SAF at ... |
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Arhan, Michel Naveira Garabato, Alberto C. Heywood, Karen J. Stevens, David P. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia |
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Arhan, Michel Naveira Garabato, Alberto C. Heywood, Karen J. Stevens, David P. |
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia |
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia |
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia |
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia |
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia |
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antarctic circumpolar current between the falkland islands and south georgia |
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https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15922/ https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15922/1/DS_28.pdf https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1914:TACCBT>2.0.CO;2 |
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https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15922/1/DS_28.pdf Arhan, Michel, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Heywood, Karen J. and Stevens, David P. (2002) The Antarctic Circumpolar Current between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32 (6). pp. 1914-1931. ISSN 0022-3670 doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1914:TACCBT>2.0.CO;2 |
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