On the freshening of the northwestern Weddell Sea continental shelf

• Main Authors: Hellmer, Hartmut H., Huhn, Oliver, Gomis, Damià, Timmermann, Ralph
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Austral; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Central Basin; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/93354; https://doi.org/10.5194/osd-7-2013-2010

We analysed hydrographic data from the northwestern Weddell Sea continental shelf of three austral winters (1989, 1997 and 2006) and two summers following the last winter cruise. During summer a thermal front exists at ∼64° S separating cold southern waters from warm northern waters that have simila...