Temporal Effects of Fast Ice Growth and Platelet Ice Accretion on ice Biogeochemistry and Diatom Species Composition in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Dieckmann, Gerhard, Günther, S.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; Atka; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12826/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23236

Growth and development of fast ice and underlying platelet layer were studied in Atka Bay, Weddell Sea (70°35.05'S, 8°.41'W) from June to December 1995. Cores taken fortnightly were analysed for structural and geochemical properties as well as diatom enumeration. The light regime above and...