Mapping the Antarctic Polar Front: weekly realizations from 2002 to 2014

Freeman, Natalie M.; Lovenduski, Nicole S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-191-2016

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-191-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-191-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

12 May 2016

| 12 May 2016

Mapping the Antarctic Polar Front: weekly realizations from 2002 to 2014

Natalie M. Freeman and Nicole S. Lovenduski

Data sets

Mapping the Antarctic Polar Front: Weekly realizations from 2002 to 2014 Natalie M. Freeman and Nicole S. Lovenduski https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.855640

Bottom topography data NOAA http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dat/misc/predicted_seafloor_topography/TOPO/

High Density XBT Transects AX25 Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/hdenxbt/ax_home.php?ax=25

Microwave OI SST Product Description Remote Sensing Systems http://www.remss.com/measurements/sea-surface-temperature/oisst-description

Drake Passage and Australian sector XBT data Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) http://www.hrx.ucsd.edu/

Short summary

The Antarctic Polar Front (PF) is an important physical and biogeochemical divide in the Southern Ocean, delineating distinct zones of temperature, nutrients and biological communities. Our study learns from and advances previous efforts to locate the PF via satellite by avoiding cloud contamination and providing circumpolar realizations at high spatio-temporal resolution. These realizations are consistent with concurrent in situ PF locations and previously published climatological PF positions.