Deep-Sea Research II, Southern Ocean GLOBEC Special Issue Variability in the freshwater balance of northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: results from δ18O

• Main Authors: Michael P. Meredith, Mark A. Br, Margaret I. Wallace, Andrew Clarke, Melanie J. Leng, Ian A. Renfrew, Nicole P. M. Van Lipzig, John C. King
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.464.6803; http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/1681/1/meredith_et_al._with_figs.pdf

We investigate the seasonal variability in freshwater inputs to the Marguerite Bay region (Western Antarctic Peninsula) using a time series of oxygen isotopes in seawater from samples collected in the upper mixed layer of the ocean during 2002 and 2003. We find that meteoric water, mostly in the for...