Antarctic Thermocline Dynamics along a Narrow Shelf with Easterly Winds

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Author: Hattermann, Tore
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Filchner Trough; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48202/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48202/1/Hattermann_JPO-2018.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0064.1; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.eea13e81-3df6-497b-bd43-f79bb710371a; https://hdl.handle.net/

Determining the role of Southern Ocean warm intermediate water for driving melting of the Antarctic ice sheet is a major challenge in assessing future sea level rise. Analysis of 2859 CTD profiles obtained between 1977 and 2016 by ships and instrumented seals at the Weddell Sea continental slope rev...