Long-Term Warm–Cold Phase Shifts in the Gerlache Strait, Western Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Zhiqiang Su, Zhaoru Zhang, Yiwu Zhu, Meng Zhou
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: Gerlache Strait; mean currents; currents ellipses; antarctic ecosystem; warm-cold phase shifts; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Bransfield Strait; Gerlache; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.877043; https://doaj.org/article/91e555aaeacf4bd58713020d23a16820

The Gerlache Strait plays an important role for the transports of heat, nutrients, and primary producers between the northern West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) and the continental shelf in the southern WAP. The means, seasonal variations, and long-term trends of currents in the Gerlache Strait are anal...