On the export of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Weddell Sea

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., McDonagh, Elaine L., Stevens, David P., Heywood, Karen J., Sanders, Richard J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea; Indian; Weddell; South Scotia Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15923/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00156-X

A survey of the current field over the South Scotia Ridge, obtained with a lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (LADCP), is presented. There is a pattern of northward (southward) flow on the western (eastern) side of each of four deep passages in the ridge, which is supported by tracer measurem...