Exploring the Wind-Driven Near-Antarctic Circulation

• Main Author: Hazel, Julia Eileen
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2019
• Subjects: Physical oceanography; Air-Ocean Interactions; Antarctica; Weddell Sea; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Austral; Ronne Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1gs7z5zm

The circulation at the margins of Antarctica closes the meridional overturning circulation, ventilating the abyssal ocean with 0$_{2}$ and modulating deep CO$_{2}$ storage on millennial timescales. This circulation also mediates the melt rates of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves, and thereby exerts...