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Using a hydrodynamic ice drift model which allows for interaction of icebergs among themselves, general schemes for average monthly ice circulation around Antarctica are given. A companion chart of solid and breakup zones is also included. The possibility of drawing up a map of solid ice zones based on the records of the forced drift of the Ob in 1973 is discussed. (Author), Draft trans. of Problemy Arktiki i Antarktiki (USSR) n47 p118-139 1976.

Trans. of Problemy Arktiki i Antarktiki, n27 p1-25, n.d.

Data gathered by the Soviet OB' and LENA Expeditions during the IGY, in conjunction with data gathered by American, British and other expeditions, are used in the plotting of Atlas Antarktiki. According to it, the current pattern in the Southern Ocean is cyclonic, with centers roughly coinciding with those of the quasistationary climatic cyclones. The so-called Antarctic Convergence is formed in places where the cold Antarctic water meets the warm subantarctic water. Here the cold Antarctic water sinks. Farther to the north, between 35 and 40 degrees S, a subtropical convergence is formed. In addition, there is one divergence zone where the upwelling of bottom water takes place. The cyclonic water movement in the coastal zone of Antarctica creates a zonal distribution of hydrological characteristics: the northern branches bring the cold Antarctic water northward, whereas the southern branches bring the warmer water to the Antarctic coast. (Author), Trans. of Vtoroi Mezhdunarodnyi Okeanograficheskii Kongress, Moscow, 1968 p309-316, by M. Slessers.

In order to understand variations in global atmospheric circulation and to improve capabilities for long range forecasting it seems logical to study variations in the main atmospheric heat source (the tropical belt) and the two main heat sinks (the arctic and antarctic). The present report gives a plan for detailed studies of the northern heat sink as proposed by a group of Soviet scientists. (Author)