Southern Ocean Eddy Heat Flux and Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Drake Passage

• Main Author: Foppert, Annie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 2017
• Subjects: Physical oceanography; Antarctic; Drake Passage; Shackleton; Shackleton Fracture Zone; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI10605275

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is a complex current system composed of multiple jets that is both unique to the world's oceans and relatively under observed compared with other current systems. Observations taken by current- and pressure-recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) over fo...