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The currents in the Drake Passage are studied from the ADCP and CTD data acquired in a section across the Drake Passage in October-November of 2011 and from the satellite altimeter data. A complicated pattern of currents including eight jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and a system of slope and abyssal currents was found. The most interesting result is the discovery of several cyclonic and anticyclonic mesoscale eddies confined to the abyss. Some reasons explaining the generation of such eddies by the meandering of the ACC jets in the upper ocean layer are presented. 相似文献
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The Western Drake Passage current system is investigated using the CTD, LADCP, and SADCP data of the cross Drake section carried
out in January 2010. A complicated current structure consisting of the six Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) jets as well
as the system of slope and abyssal currents was revealed. The most interesting result is the identification of the abyssal
quasi-geostrophic spurts in the northern part that probably are generated by abyssal eddy fragments, which are an imperative
part of the meandering ACC. 相似文献
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G. G. Panteleev M. N. Koshlyakov E. G. Morozov R. Yu. Tarakanov A. Yu. Goldin A. Yu. Shcherbina M. Ikeda 《Oceanology》2006,46(6):772-783
Computation of ocean currents in the Drake Passage is carried out with variational assimilation of the data of the hydrographical section across the Drake Passage carried out on December 11–15, 2003, and other data. A stream-eddy structure of the easterly Antarctic Circumpolar Current and a westerly current on the Antarctic Slope are obtained. Water transports by the different current field components and the integral transport across the Drake Passage are estimated. The necessity of direct current measurements in the Drake Passage for a correct estimate of the transport is confirmed. 相似文献
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We study the energy exchange between jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and synoptic eddies generated by them in the surface layer of the ocean in the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea based on 22-year-long satellite altimetry time series from the French CLS Agency (DT Global–MADT–Upd product, http://www.aviso.altimetry.fr) under the assumption, based on observations, that each of the jets is confined between two fixed contour lines of the absolute dynamic topography of the ocean. We calculate and analyze the 22-year evolution of the kinetic energy of each ACC jet and cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies generated by it. We demonstrate the fundamental dependence of fluctuations in jet energy on the phase of their meander and eddy formation, as well as their back absorption by jets. We calculate the mean and extreme energetic characteristics of jets and eddies and compare the jets in terms of the intensity of the generated eddies. 相似文献
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《Ocean Modelling》2003,5(3):249-266
The eddy-induced mass transport is diagnosed for the Southern Ocean in an eddy-permitting global ocean model (OCCAM). The focus is on the transport by transient eddies in the deep ocean. The transport streamfunction is calculated in four different combinations of coordinate system. Depending on the coordinate system employed, the strength of transient eddy transport varies from 6 Sv meridional transport in latitude-density coordinates to 20 Sv across-streamline transport in streamline-depth coordinates. It is shown that transient eddies as well as standing eddies are necessary for cancelling the Deacon cell.In the Antarctic bottom water density layer, the major contribution of the transient eddies towards net equatorward transport occurs (a) as a strong transport over the narrow Drake Passage and (b) as a weaker but systematic transport over a broader region in the southeast Pacific where the Antarctic circumpolar current breaks up into multiple jets. In contrast, in the North Atlantic deep water density layer the net poleward eddy transport is spread out almost everywhere. This suggests that attention to eddies should not be restricted to places where the eddy transport has large magnitude. 相似文献
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R. Yu. Tarakanov 《Oceanology》2012,52(2):157-170
It is shown on the basis of the data of the Russian Academy of Sciences expeditions in 2003–2010, the historical CTD database,
the WOCE climatology, and the satellite altimetry that the area of the Scotia Sea and the Drake Passage is even a greater
significant orographic barrier for the eastward Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) than was previously thought. It is the
current concept that this barrier is the most important for the ACC; it consists of three obstacles: the Hero Ridge with the
Phoenix Rift, the Shackleton Ridge, and the North Scotia Ridge with the relatively shallow eastern part of the Scotia Sea.
Despite the fact that all three obstacles are permeable for the layer of the Circumpolar Bottom Water (CBW; 28.16 < γ
n
< 28.26) being considered the lower part of the circumpolar water, the circulation in this layer throughout the Scotia Sea
and the Drake Passage quite substantially differs from the transfer by the surface-intensified ACC jets. Herewith, the upper
CBW boundary is the lower limit of the circumpolar coverage of the ACC jets. This result is confirmed by the near zero estimate
of the total CBW transport according to the three series of the LADCP measurements on the sections across the Drake Passage.
It is shown that the transformation (cooling and freshening) of the CBW layer, which occurs owing to the flow of the ACC over
the Shackleton Ridge, is associated with the shape and location of the ridge in the Drake Passage. The high southern part
of this ridge is a partially permeable screen for the eastward CBW transport behind which the colder and fresher waters of
the Weddell Sea and the Bransfield Strait of the same density range as the CBW penetrate into the ACC zone. The partial permeability
of the Shackleton Ridge for the CBW layer leads to the salinization of this layer on the eastern side of the ridge and to
the CBW’s freshening on the western side of this ridge, which is observed across the entire Drake Passage. 相似文献
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《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2007,54(11):1972-1984
The Southern Ocean hosts significant topographic mixing that might be associated with internal tides. Tidal signals are evident in bottom temperature at 1000 m in Drake Passage, suggesting that internal tides with an amplitude of between ∼20 and 200 m may be present. Various necessary conditions for internal tide generation show that the steep topography in and around Drake Passage can initiate internal tides, and recent global tide models have suggested this region to generate very large interface displacements. Here, we present an attempt to detect internal tides in Drake Passage. During the last 10 years, combinations of bottom pressure recorders and inverted echo sounders have been deployed in the region. The bottom pressure recorders measure predominantly the barotropic tide; the inverted echo sounders measure travel time from sea bed to sea surface and therefore are influenced both by sea level (barotropic tide) and internal sound speed (internal tide). By subtracting one from the other, the internal tide should be detectable. Although the technique works successfully around Hawaii, it does not prove the existence of large internal tides in Drake Passage. The detectability of the internal tidal signal in Drake Passage is investigated using a six-layer one-dimensional model to simulate the bottom pressure and travel time signals of a semi-diurnal tide. The temperature and salinity stratification in Drake Passage is sufficiently weak that large vertical excursions are necessary to produce a signal in travel time detectable above the noise in Drake Passage. An internal tide of at least 70 or 20 m in northern and southern Drake Passage, respectively, would be detected. The fact that these are, perhaps surprisingly, not detected by the combination of bottom pressure and travel time, constrains the internal tides in Drake Passage to be ∼20 m in southern Drake Passage, and between 20 and 70 m in northern Drake Passage. The model also predicts that satellite altimetry would not be able to detect internal tides in Drake Passage, but would in the Brazil Basin and Hawaii regions. 相似文献
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R. Yu. Tarakanov 《Oceanology》2014,54(1):1-7
The horizontal structure of the jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is analyzed on the basis of CTD- and LADCP- sounding performed during a hydrophysical survey with a 10-mile spatial resolution in the central part of the Drake Passage in October–November of 2008. According to the modern multijet classification of the ACC, the survey area covered the zones of three jets of the South Polar Current (SPC), which is the middle branch of the ACC. The current jets revealed a fine horizontal thermohaline structure, which was manifested even in the case of the confluence of individual jets into a “superjet.” 相似文献
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Geostrophic currents in the Drake Passage are studied using the data of two hydrographic sections across the passage occupied in December 2003 and November 2005 along with satellite altimetry data. A conclusion is reached that the altimetry correction of the geostrophic currents has advantages compared to the correction made on the basis of the lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler data. A number of new results about the structure and intensity of the ocean currents in the Drake Passage are obtained; the main one is the distinguishing of several abyssal currents of westward direction confined to deep passages in the bottom topography. 相似文献
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Currents in the Drake Passage are studied using the data of a hydrographic section along the Shackleton Transverse Ridge observed in November 2007. The distribution of the velocity component normal to the section was computed by two methods: (a) directly on the basis of the lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (LADCP) data; (b) by the calculation of geostrophic currents based on the CTD data with estimating the depth averaged velocity on the basis of the LADCP data. The main results of the research are the relatively low estimated value of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) transport, which accounts for 65–70% of the ACC transports in December 2003 and November 2005, and the confirmation of the existence of several abyssal currents confined to the deep passages of the bottom topography. 相似文献
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The Southern Ocean plays an important role in the global overturning circulation as a significant proportion of deep water is converted into intermediate and deeper water masses in this region. Recently, a secular trend has been reported in wind stress around the Southern Ocean and it is thought theoretically that the strength of the ACC is closely related to wind stress, so one consequence should be a corresponding increase in ACC transport and hence changes in the rate of the global overturning. There are no long-term data sets of ACC transport and so we must examine other data that may also respond to changing wind stress. Here we calculate surface currents in Drake Passage every seven days over 11.25 years from 1992 to 2004. We combine surface velocity anomalies calculated from satellite altimeter sea surface heights with measured surface currents. Since 1992, the UK has regularly occupied WOCE hydrographic section SR1b across the ACC in Drake Passage. From seven hydrographic sections surface currents are estimated by referencing relative geostrophic velocities from CTD sections with current measurements made by shipboard and lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers. Combining the seven estimates of surface currents with the altimeter data reduces bias in the estimates of average currents over time through Drake Passage and we show that surface current anomalies estimated by satellite and in situ observations are in good agreement. The strongest surface currents are found in the Subantarctic and Polar Fronts with average speeds of 50 cm/s and 35 cm/s, respectively and are inversely correlated, so that maximum westward flow in one corresponds to minimum westward flow in the other. The average cross-sectional weighted surface velocity from 1992 to 2004 is 16.7 ± 0.2 cm/s. A spectral analysis of the average surface current has only weakly increasing energy at higher frequencies and there is no dominant mode of variability. The standard deviation of the seven day currents is 0.68 cm/s and a running 12 month average has only a slightly smaller standard deviation of 0.52 ± 0.16 cm/s. The southern annular mode (SAM) measures the circumpolar average of wind stress and like the surface currents its spectrum has slightly increased energy at frequencies greater than 1 cpy. A cospectral analysis of these, averaging cospectra of five slightly overlapping 36 month segments improve statistical reliability, suggests that there is coherence between them at 1 cpy with the currents leading changes in the Southern annular mode. We conclude that the SAM and average Drake Passage surface currents are weakly correlated with no dominant co-varying modes, and hence predicting Southern Ocean transport variability from the SAM is not likely to give significant results and that secular trends in surface currents are likely to be masked by weekly and interannual variability. 相似文献
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Koshlyakov M. N. Repina I. A. Savchenko D. S. Tarakanov R. Y. Taroyan V. K. 《Oceanology》2019,59(2):171-181
Oceanology - Satellite altimeter observation data collected over 22 years are used to analyze the structure and variability of mesoscale fluctuations of ocean currents in the Drake Passage and... 相似文献
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Ho Il Yoon Kyu-Cheul Yoo Young-Suk Bak Yong Il Lee Jae Il Lee 《Geo-Marine Letters》2009,29(5):309-320
A deep-sea sediment core (GC98-06) from the southernmost Drake Passage, West Antarctica, shows late Quaternary depositional
environments distinctly different from sedimentary drifts commonly found along the southwestern Pacific margin of the Drake
Passage. The chronology of the core has been inferred using geochemical tracers of paleoproductivity and diatom biostratigraphy,
and represents the paleoceanographic conditions in a continental rise setting during the last 150,000 years. Three dominant
sediment types associated with distinct sedimentary processes have been identified using textural/compositional analyses:
(1) hemipelagic mud (interglacial sediments) deposited from pelagic settling of bioclasts, meltwater plumes, and ice-rafted
detritus; (2) terrigenous mud (glacial sediments) delivered by turbid meltwater plumes; and (3) massive muds marking the boundaries
from interglacial to glacial periods. The succession of the sedimentary facies in core GC98-06 is interpreted to reflect temporal
changes in environmental conditions prevailing on the continental rise of the southern Drake Passage in the course of successive
climatic stages over the last 150 ka: from the bottom upward, these are glacial, interglacial, glaciation, glacial, and interglacial
episodes. Variability in sediment flux and diatom abundance seem to have been related to changes in glacial advance, sea-ice
extent, and specific sedimentary environments, collectively influenced by mid- to late Quaternary climatic changes. 相似文献
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R. Yu. Tarakanov 《Oceanology》2010,50(1):1-17
The quantitative properties and circulation of the lower layer of circumpolar water in the Scotia Sea with density 28.16 <
γ
n
< 28.26 (potential temperature 0.9° > θ > 0.2°C) are investigated using the original procedure for determination of boundaries
between water masses. The primary objective of this work is data analyses of four Russian sections, which were occupied in
the vicinity of the Shackleton Fracture Zone in 2003, 2005, and 2007. It is shown that the ridges in the Hero and Shackleton
fracture zones essentially constrain overflow of the lower layer of circumpolar water, and thereby, they produce the conditions
to the east of the Shackleton Ridge for transformation (freshening and warming) of this layer reaching the northern side of
the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. These ridges also promote formation of several quasi-permanent and semi-enclosed abyssal
and deep-water eddies adjacent to these ridges. The estimation of overflow of the lower part of the investigated layer with
density 28.23 < γ
n
< 28.26 (0.9° > θ > 0.2°C) through the Shackleton Ridge based on LADCP measurements in 2007 is 0.5 Sv (0.1 Sv) to the east
(west). The upper part of the overflow is estimated as 8.0 (7.9) Sv. Thus, the total transport of the lower layer of circumpolar
water through the ridge is practically zero. It is confirmed by LADCP measurements carried out on the section across the Drake
Passage in 2003. 相似文献
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Yu. V. Artamonov N. P. Bulgakov P. D. Lomakin E. A. Skripaleva 《Physical Oceanography》2004,14(6):377-387
On the basis of the many-year monthly average thermohaline data of the oceanographic array, we study some regularities of the seasonal cycle in the fields of temperature, salinity, and the characteristics of water masses in the Drake Passage. We obtain and analyze the amplitude and phase parameters of seasonal oscillations of the investigated quantities. By using the volumetric statistical T, S-analysis, we deduce quantitative estimates of the annual variations of the volumes of main water masses in the Drake Passage. Possible mechanisms responsible for the phenomena observed in this region are discussed.__________Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 6, pp. 62–73, November–December, 2004. 相似文献
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The currents within the junction of the Shackleton and West-Scotia ridges in the central part of the Drake Passage are studied
using the data of the hydrographic survey carried out in October–November of 2008. The absolute geostrophic currents were
computed by matching the CTD and LADCP data. As a result, the complicated system of deep currents conditioned by the ocean
bottom’s topography was revealed and described. A new path of propagation of the Antarctic Bottom Water has been revealed. 相似文献
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Oceanology - The kinetic energy of six jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and of the cyclonic and anticyclonic mesoscale eddies generated by these jets is studied in application to the... 相似文献
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E.
zsoy A. Hecht Ü. Ünlüata S. Brenner H.I. Sur J. Bishop M.A. Latif Z. Rozentraub T. Oguz 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》1993,40(6)
The Levantine Basin circulation derived from recent data consists of a series of sub-basin-scale to mesoscale eddies interconnected by jets. The basin-scale circulation is masked by eddy variability that modulates and modifies it on seasonal and interannual time scales. Long-term qualitative changes in the circulation are reflected in the bifurcation pattterns of ther mid-basin jets, relative strengths of eddies and the hydrographic properties at the core of these eddies. Confinement within the Basin geometry strongly influences the co-evolution of the circulation features.Surface measurements, satellite images and the mass field indicate an entire range of scales of dynamical features in the region. The complexity of the circulation is consistent with the basin-wide and mesoscale heterogeneity of the hydrographic properties. The interannual variability of LIW (Levantine Intermediate Water) formation in the region appears correlated with the changes in the circulation. Wintertime convective overturning of water masses reach intermediate depths and constitute a dominant mechanism of LIW formation, especially in anticyclonic eddies and along the coasts of the northern Levantine Basin. 相似文献
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Oceanology - The research program of the dynamics and ecosystem of the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea is scientifically substantiated. Measurements will be carried out by the interdepartmental... 相似文献