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| Arhan, Michel; Carton, Xavier; Piola, A; Zenk, W. |
| [1] Three deep anticyclonic eddies of a species only reported once before [Gordon and Greengrove, 1986] were intersected by hydrographic lines of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and South Atlantic Ventilation Experiment (SAVE) programs in the Argentine Basin. The vortices are centered near 3500 m depth at the interface between North Atlantic Deep Water and Bottom Water. They have similar to1500-m-thick cores containing Lower Circumpolar Deep Water and a dynamical influence that may span up to two thirds of the water column. As one eddy was observed just downstream of the western termination of the Falkland Escarpment, a destabilization of the deep boundary current by the sudden slope relaxation is suggested as a potential cause of eddy... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Eddies and mesoscale processes; Western boundary currents; Hydrography. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10057/7797.pdf |
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