Chlorofluorocarbon evidence for rapid ventilation of the Ross Sea

Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-12 and -11 (CF2Cl2 and CFCl3) measurements were made in seawater on the Ross Sea continental shelf and adjacent slope region in 1984. Concentrations of CFC-12 and CFC-11 in Ross Sea continental shelf water averaged nearly half that of saturated surface water. Circumpolar Dee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Trumbore, SE, Jacobs, SS, Smethie, WM
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: eScholarship, University of California 1991
Subjects:
Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Sea
Western Shelf
Ice Shelf
Sea ice
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pd07742

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