The Polar Front in Drake Passage: a composite-mean stream-coordinate view

• Main Authors: Annie Foppert, Donohue, KA, Watts, DR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Physical oceanography; Southern Ocean; fronts; polar front; stream coordinates; Drake Passage; Shackleton; Shackleton Fracture Zone
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_Polar_Front_in_Drake_Passage_a_composite-mean_stream-coordinate_view/22991396

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...