Regional circulation around Heard and McDonald Islands and through the Fawn Trough, central Kerguelen Plateau

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: van Wijk, EM, Rintoul, SR, Ronai, BM, Williams, GD
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd 2010
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Chun Spur; Fawn Trough; Heard; Heard Island; Kerguelen; McDonald Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.03.001; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/71309

The fine-scale circulation around the Heard and McDonald Islands and through the Fawn Trough, Kerguelen Plateau, is described using data from three high-resolution CTD sections, Argo floats and satellite maps of chlorophyll a, sea surface temperature (SST) and absolute sea surface height (SSH). We c...