This book is dedicated to the study of structure and transport of deep and bottom waters through underwater channels of the Atlantic Ocean. The study is based on recent observations, analysis of historical data, and literature review. A strong flow of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Argentine Basin to the Brazil Basin through the Vema Channel (32iCdegree-27iCdegree S) is studied on the basis of CTD sections combined with LADCP profiling carried out annually and long-term moored measurements. The flow in the Vema Channel is mixed in the vertical direction but horizontally stratified. The mean s.
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1; Geological and Geophysical Characteristics of the Transform Fault Zones1; Chapter 2; Deep Water Masses of the South and North Atlantic; Chapter 3; Source Regions, Abyssal Pathways, and Bottom Flow Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin); Chapter 4; Exchange Between the Argentine and Brazil Basins; Abyssal Pathways and Bottom Flow Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin); Chapter 5; Further Propagation of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Brazil Basin; Chapter 6.