Posted by Olaf Boebel on May 16, 2001 at 07:27:01:
Dear authors, thank you for the nice and timely review of recent BMC research. Your figure 5 shows the presence of drifters in the area between December 1994 and February 1996. During this period RAFOS floats visited the BMC and showed the cross-frontal exchange of subantarctic water and subtropical water near meander extreme. It seems that subsurface "blubs" of subantarctic water can enter the subtropical regime without showing a surface temperature expression.
For more information please refer to
Boebel, O., C. Schmid, G. Podestá, and W. Zenk, Intermediate water at the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence Zone: a Lagrangian view, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104 (C9), 21063-21082, 1999
and
Boebel, O., C. Schmid, and W. Zenk, Kinematic elements of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the western South Atlantic, Deep-Sea Research II, 46 (1/2), 355-392, 1999
Cheers, Olaf