| Title | Seasonal and annual variations of hydrological fronts in the Southern Ocean [Sezonnaia i mezhgodovaia izmenchivost' gidrologicheskikh frontov Iuzhnogo okeana] |
| Author | Artamonov, I.V.; Skripalyeva, E.A.; Babii, M.V.; Galkovskaia, L.K. |
| Author Affil | Artamonov, I.V., Natsional'naia Akademiia Nauk Ukrainy, Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Institut, Sevastopol, Ukraine |
| Source | Ukrayins'kii Antarktichnii Zhurnal = Ukrainian Antarctic Journal, Vol.8, p.205- 216, . Publisher: Ukrayins'kii Antarktichnii Tsentr, Kiev, Ukraine. ISSN: 1727- 7485 |
| Publication Date | 2009 |
| Notes | In Russian with English and Ukrainian summaries. 13 refs. Ant. Acc. No: 88660. GeoRef Acc. No: 300558 |
| Index Terms | climate; organizations; oceanography; remote sensing; temperature; Antarctica; Southern Ocean; annual variations; anomalies; AVHRR; cycles; government agencies; NASA; NOAA; satellite methods; sea surface water; sea water; sea-surface temperature; seasonal variations |
| Abstract | The seasonal and interannual variability of the large-scale fronts in the Southern Ocean are investigated, based on SST satellite observations from archive AVHRR Ocean Pathfinder Data JPL NOAA/NASA during 1985-2002 and NCEP SST data during 1981-2008. It is shown, that the main frontal sections are circumpolar and most sharply shown in boundary layers adjacent to continents. Most intensive are the Southern subtropical, Subantarctic and Antarctic polar fronts. These fronts are characterized by the greatest seasonal variability of intensity with the prevailing annual signal. In the each separate basin the distinctive features connected with the region's orography and hydrometeorological conditions are observed. The essential interannual variations of SST field in the main fronts zones are discovered. |
| Publication Type | journal article |
| Record ID | 64005043 |