Abstract The Southern Ocean is a critical component of the global climate system and an
important ecoregion that contains a diverse range of interdependent flora and fauna. It also …

During the last 30 years, at-sea studies of seabirds and marine mammals in the oceans
south of the Subtropical Front have described an association with major frontal areas. More …

The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in regulating global climate as a major sink for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and in global ocean biogeochemistry by supplying …

Large-scale features of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) are described using all
historical hydrographic data available from the Southern Ocean. The geopotential anomaly …

This book presents an in-depth discussion of the biological and ecological geography of the
oceans. It synthesizes locally restricted studies of the ocean to generate a global geography …

The ocean's biological pump strips nutrients out of the surface waters and exports them into
the thermocline and deep waters. If there were no return path of nutrients from deep waters …

High resolution hydrographic sections and maps of the gradient of sea surface height (SSH)
reveal that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) consists of multiple jets or frontal …

The southern termination of the Agulhas Current is unique for a western boundary current in
this respect that it takes place at the meridional extremity of the adjacent continent. This is …

Despite playing a major role in global ocean heat storage, the Southern Ocean remains the
most sparsely measured region of the global ocean. Here, a unique 25-year temperature …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC) system.
It illustrates the recent observations of the structure and transport of the ACC. Numerical and …