TY - JOUR N2 - The attempt was made to describe the dynamics of water masses in the southern part of the Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait in the time period from December 1983 to January 1984. The dynamic topography at the surface (referred to 500 dbar surface) allowed to define the eastward flow of water in the Bransfield Strait and to observe, in the same region, the presence of a rather weak counter-current of the Weddell Sea origin. In the Drake Passage, a general north-eastern direction of water flow of the Bellingshausen Sea was found. In the Bransfield Strait, as well as in the Drake Passage, the relative velocities of geostrophic flow were low: 0.22 and 0.06 m s-1 respectively. The analysis of Rossby and eddy numbers and Rossby radius made it possible to regionalize the dynamic phenomena but could not be fully used for their classification. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111407/PDF/1986_4_353-369.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111407 PY - 1986 IS - No 4 EP - 369 KW - Antarctica KW - hydrodynamic processes A1 - Grelowski, Alfred A1 - Majewicz, Andrzej A1 - Pastuszak, Marianna PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 7 DA - 1986 T1 - Mesoscale hydrodynamic processes in the region of Bransfield Strait and the southern part of Drake Passage during BIOMASS-SIBEX 1983/84 SP - 353 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/111407 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -