Eddy heat flux across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current estimated from sea surface height standard deviation

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Foppert, A, Donohue, KA, Watts, DR, Tracey, KL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical oceanography; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Kerguelen; Drake Passage; Indian; Southeast Indian Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC012837; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/140516

Eddy heat flux (EHF) is a predominant mechanism for heat transport across the zonally unbounded mean flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Observations of dynamically relevant, divergent, 4 year mean EHF in Drake Passage from the cDrake project, as well as previous studies of atmospheric...