Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-191-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-191-2016
12 May 2016
 | 12 May 2016

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

Natalie M. Freeman and Nicole S. Lovenduski

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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.