Dynamics of Intermediate Water Circulation
in the Subtropical South Atlantic
 
 

Claudia Schmid¹, Gerold Siedler² and Walter Zenk
Institut für Meereskunde an der Universität Kiel, Germany
 
 

A submission to:
Journal of Physical Oceanography
 
 

- 14 February 2000, in press -
 
 

¹ now at Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies,
University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
² presently at Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas, Telde, GC, Spain

Abstract
1. Introduction
2.Water mass distribution and spreading
3. Discussion of the dynamics
3.1 Sverdrup model
3.2 Models of the ventilated thermocline
3.3 Interpretation of output fields from a Primitive Equations Model
4 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Bibliography

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