Felix has been contributing valuable insights pertaining to this mission in comments sections in this blog but I think some of them deserve their own indexing below so I'll include them in their own post when I can. This latest from him deals with the ostensible ocean current around Antarctica...
felix has left a new comment on your post "Was Andhoy & his crew stopped?":
Somewhat unrelated, but I found this nice map of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ACC the world's "largest ocean current"
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/ocean/antarctic-circulation.gif
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/ocean-conveyor-belt-confounds-climate-science
It could easlily be adapated to an outer Antarctic circle model
Once again, NASA is very active here
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/grace-images-20051220.html
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/139807main_pic2-516.jpg
Most studies of the alleged circumpolar current have taken place in the Drake Passage, unsurprisingly.
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/southern/antarctic-cp.html
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) as represented by the Mariano Global Surface Velocity Analysis (MGSVA). The ACC is poorly represented here because of the lack of data. The MGSVA is based on ship-drift estimates of sea surface velocities that are mostly available along major shipping routes.
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/basin-maps.html
hmmmm
Here's another diagram from New Zealand showing the current
http://www.teara.govt.nz/files/m-5915-enz.jpg
felix has left a new comment on your post "Was Andhoy & his crew stopped?":
Somewhat unrelated, but I found this nice map of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ACC the world's "largest ocean current"
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/ocean/antarctic-circulation.gif
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/ocean-conveyor-belt-confounds-climate-science
It could easlily be adapated to an outer Antarctic circle model
Once again, NASA is very active here
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/grace-images-20051220.html
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/139807main_pic2-516.jpg
Most studies of the alleged circumpolar current have taken place in the Drake Passage, unsurprisingly.
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/southern/antarctic-cp.html
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) as represented by the Mariano Global Surface Velocity Analysis (MGSVA). The ACC is poorly represented here because of the lack of data. The MGSVA is based on ship-drift estimates of sea surface velocities that are mostly available along major shipping routes.
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/basin-maps.html
hmmmm
Here's another diagram from New Zealand showing the current
http://www.teara.govt.nz/files/m-5915-enz.jpg
