Rebound of shelf water salinity in the Ross Sea

Ross Sea Bottom Water, a major source of Antarctic Bottom Water, has experienced significant freshening in recent decades. Here the authors use 23 years of summer measurements to document temporal variability in the salinity of the Ross Sea High Salinity Shelf Water (HSSW) and found that HSSW salini...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Pasquale Castagno, Vincenzo Capozzi, Giacomo R. DiTullio, Pierpaolo Falco, Giannetta Fusco, Stephen R. Rintoul, Giancarlo Spezie, Giorgio Budillon
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
Subjects:
Science
Q
Antarctic
Ross Sea
Antarc*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13083-8
https://doaj.org/article/347e13cb3fae4da89b8bfbc435d5522e
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Summary:Ross Sea Bottom Water, a major source of Antarctic Bottom Water, has experienced significant freshening in recent decades. Here the authors use 23 years of summer measurements to document temporal variability in the salinity of the Ross Sea High Salinity Shelf Water (HSSW) and found that HSSW salinity decreased between 1995 and 2014 and rebounded sharply after 2014.

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