The Transfer of Antarctic Circumpolar Waters to the Western South Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Abello, Anna Olivé, Pelegri, Josep L., Machín Jiménez, Francisco José, Vallès Casanova, Ignasi
• Other Authors: orcid:0000-0003-3136-8898, orcid:0000-0003-0661-2190, orcid:0000-0002-4281-6804, orcid:0000-0003-2084-852X, BU-BAS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 2510 Oceanografía; Antarctic Circumpolar waters; Scotia Sea; Argo floats; Geostrophic transport; Interannual variability; Frontal systems; Antarctic; Drake Passage; South Scotia Ridge; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/113982; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC017025

Southern Ocean waters enter the South Atlantic Ocean through the Scotia Sea along pathways constrained by the bathymetry of the northern Scotia Sea passages. We use the Argo profiling-float data set to calculate the water transports in and out of the region, focusing on the water balances down to th...