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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.”
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Original Russian Text © R.Yu. Tarakanov, 2014, published in Okeanologiya, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 5–11.
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Tarakanov, R.Y. Jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the central part of the Drake Passage based on the survey data in October–November of 2008. Oceanology 54, 1–7 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143701401010X
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