Figure 1: Locations where vertical profiles of microstructure and tracer were collected overlain on the topography of the Drake Passage region in the Southern Ocean.
From: Topographic enhancement of vertical turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean
(a) Bathymetric map showing the Drake Passage region in the Southern Ocean27. The area covers the domain of analysis of DIMES. The white rectangle encloses the domain used for the high-resolution numerical simulation. The yellow star represents the location of release of an anthropogenic tracer in DIMES. The white lines represent three of the major Antarctic Circumpolar Current system's fronts, namely the SubAntarctic Front (SAF), the Polar Front (PF) and the Southern Boundary front (SB). (b) An enlarged view of the white box in a. White circles represent sampling stations of DIMES tracer along UK2-68W and UK2.5-SR1 cruise tracks, with the circle radii proportional to the vertically integrated tracer concentrations. Black stars represent DIMES microstructure measurements during US5 and UK2.5 cruises. The half ellipses represent the location where the numerical tracer was injected in the high-resolution simulation. White dashed contour lines represent sea surface height.
