Regional Oceanography. Weddell Sea Ocean Circulation Patterns.

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Regional Oceanography

Weddell Sea

Ocean Circulation Patterns

Temperature [°C] Temperature and currents in the Warm Deep Water of the Weddell Sea derived from profiling float data

Southern Annular Mode NAM Circumpolar mode; variation in surface pressure and hence in westerly and polar easterly wind strength

SLP/SAM SLP/ENSO SLA/ENSO SLA/SAM Sallée et al. - Response of the ACC to atmospheric variability - Southern Ocean Indices: The ACC system

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