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Rintoul, Sr; Sokolov, S; Church, J. |
Repeat hydrographic sections across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current are used to derive an empirical relationship between upper ocean temperature and the baroclinic transport stream function. Cross validation shows this relationship can be used to infer baroclinic transport (above and relative to 2500 dbar) from temperature measurements with an error of a few per cent. The mean transport distribution derived from 31 austral summer expendable bathythermograph (XBT) sections over a 6 year period consists of westward flow immediately south of Tasmania, a broad band of strong eastward flow between 50degrees and 55degreesS, and three cores of eastward flow south of 55degreesS. By defining a second empirical relationship between surface dynamic height and... |
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Palavras-chave: Baroclinic transport; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Interannual variability; Satellite altimeter; XBT. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00223/33444/31832.pdf |
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Swart, S; Speich, Sabrina; Ansorge, I; Goni, G; Gladyshev, S; Lutjeharms, J. |
Data from five CTD and 18 XBT sections are used to estimate the baroclinic transport ( referenced to 2500 dbar) of the ACC south of Africa. Surface dynamic height is derived from XBT data by establishing an empirical relationship between vertically integrated temperature and surface dynamic height calculated from CTD data. This temperature-derived dynamic height data compare closely with dynamic heights calculated from CTD data ( average RMS difference = 0.05 dyn m). A second empirical relationship between surface dynamic height and cumulative baroclinic transport is defined, allowing us to study a more extensive time series of baroclinic transport derived from upper ocean temperature sections. From 18 XBT transects of the ACC, the average baroclinic... |
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Palavras-chave: Satellite altimetry; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Baroclinic transport. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4700.pdf |
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