Mixing in the Romanche Fracture Zone

• Main Authors: Ferron, Bruno, Mercier, Herlé, Speer, Kevin, Gargett, Ann, Polzin, Kurt
• Other Authors: 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), Institute of Ocean Sciences Sidney (IOS), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1998
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Antarctic; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Osborn; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00267704; https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1929:MITRFZ>2.0.CO;2

International audience The Romanche Fracture Zone is a major gap in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the equator, which is deep enough to allow significant eastward flows of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Brazil Basin to the Sierra Leone and Guinea Abyssal Plains. While flowing through the Romanche Fractu...