Long-Term Warm–Cold Phase Shifts in the Gerlache Strait, Western Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Su, Zhiqiang, Zhang, Zhaoru, Zhu, Yiwu, Zhou, Meng
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: Ocean Engineering; Water Science and Technology; Aquatic Science; Global and Planetary Change; Oceanography; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Bransfield Strait; Gerlache; Gerlache Strait; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.877043; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.877043/full

The Gerlache Strait plays an important role for the transports of heat, nutrients, and primary producers between the northern West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) and the continental shelf in the southern WAP. The means, seasonal variations, and long-term trends of currents in the Gerlache Strait are anal...