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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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