The Polar Front in Drake Passage: A composite‐mean stream‐coordinate view

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Foppert, Annie, Donohue, Kathleen A., Watts, D. Randolph
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 2016
• Subjects: Drake Passage; Shackleton; Shackleton Fracture Zone
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/gsofacpubs/602; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011333; https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/context/gsofacpubs/article/1568/viewcontent/Foppert_PolarFront_2016.pdf

The Polar Front (PF) is studied using 4 years of data collected by a line of current‐ and pressure‐recording inverted echo sounders in Drake Passage complemented with satellite altimetry. The location of the PF is bimodal in latitude. A northern and southern PF exist at separate times, separated geo...