A deep cyclonic gyre in the Australian-Antarctic Basin

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: McCartney, Michael S., Donohue, Kathleen A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 2007
• Subjects: Abyssal circulation; Antarctic circumpolar current; Boundary currents; Gyres; Southeast Indian ocean sector; Southern ocean; Wind-driven Circulation; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Basin; Australian-Antarctic Basin; Drake Passage; Flinders; Indian; Kerguelen; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/gsofacpubs/1225; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.02.008

The traditional image of ocean circulation between Australia and Antarctica is of a dominant belt of eastward flow, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with comparatively weak adjacent westward flows that provide anticyclonic circulation north and cyclonic circulation south of the Antarctic Circumpol...