of the Drake Passage Based on the Survey Data
in October
November of 2008
R. Yu. Tarakanov
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: rtarakanov@gmail.com
Received September 25, 2012
Abstract—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 resolu-
tion 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.”
DOI: 10.1134/S000143701401010X
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