Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 22 November 1974:
Vol. 186. no. 4165, pp. 736 - 738
DOI: 10.1126/science.186.4165.736
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Counterclockwise Circulation in the Pacific Subantarctic Sector of the Southern Ocean

Richard F. McGinnis 1

1 Department of Biology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington 98447

The distribution of isohalines in the upper 500 meters of Pacific subantarctic waters can be interpreted as evidence for an endemic counterclockwise circulation, the westward component of which is at 40 to 45 degrees south latitude. The distributions of a number of lanternfish species (family Myctophidae) lend support to such an interpretation.

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)