On the total carbon dioxide and oxygen signature of the Circumpolar Deep Water in the Weddell Gyre

• Main Authors: Hoppema, Mario, Fahrbach, Eberhard, Schröder, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; South Orkney Plateau; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Basin; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1425/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12016

Sections from two 'Polarstern' cruises in austral winter 1992 and summer 1992/93 were used to track the course of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) in the Weddell Sea. Total inorganic carbon (TCO2) is a valuable tracer for that water mass because it allows to distinguish features that cannot be...