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Ikeda et al. 1989
Ikeda, Y., Siedler, G. and Zwierz, M. (1989). On the variability of southern Ocean front locations between southern Brazil and the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/88JC03505. issn: 0148-0227.

A 4-year expendable bathythermograph data set (1984--1987) from the area between southern Brazil and the antarctic Peninsula provides information on the interannual variability of front locations. Two boundaries of subtropical water at different depths are identified north and south of the Brazil Current--Falkland (Malvinas) Current confluence zone. The northern Subtropical Front is displaced over a large part of the Argentine Basin from one observational period to the other. The shallow southern Subtropical Front appears fixed to the Falkland Escarpment. The Polar Front and Subantarctic Front locations do not vary much, except for one case where a cold core eddy in the Polar Frontal Zone causes a large northward displacement of the Subantarctic Front. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Oceanography, Physical, Fronts and jets, Information Related to Geographic Region, Atlantic Ocean, Oceanography, General, Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
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