Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Pauthenet, E, Roquet, F, Madec, G, Guinet, C, Hindell, M, McMahon, CR, Harcourt, R, Nerini, D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Ecology; Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology); Antarctic; The Antarctic; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Indian; Conrad Rise; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079614; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/130087

The location of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) is mapped in the Southern Indian Ocean by decomposing the shape of temperature and salinity profiles into vertical modes using a functional Principal Component Analysis. We define the PF as the northernmost minimum of temperature at the subsurface and r...