The Flow of Dense Water Plumes in the Western Weddell Sea Simulated with the Finite Element Ocean Model (FEOM)

Ocean simulations performed with the Finite Element Ocean Model (FEOM) were used to show the relevance of the location of the dense water plume source on the western Weddell Sea continental shelf. When the plume starts close to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula it flows into Bransfield Strait, but...

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Main Authors: van Caspel, Mathias Rucker, Absy, João Marcelo, Wang, Qiang, Hellmer, Hartmut H., Schröder, Michael
Other Authors: Lohmann, G., Meggers, H., Unnithan, V., Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter, Notholt, Justus, Bracher, Astrid
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Springer International Publishing 2015
Subjects:
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Bransfield Strait
The Antarctic
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Online Access:https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37285/
https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37285/1/vanCaspel_SpringerBook.pdf
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-13865-7_14
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44973
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44973.d001
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Summary:Ocean simulations performed with the Finite Element Ocean Model (FEOM) were used to show the relevance of the location of the dense water plume source on the western Weddell Sea continental shelf. When the plume starts close to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula it flows into Bransfield Strait, but if it is found further south it can flow down the slope and contribute to Weddell Sea Deep Water (WSDW). The influence of density on the spreading was also tested indicating that a denser plume reaches greater depths while lighter plumes do not interact with the WSDW.

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