Ice-ocean processes over the continental shelf of the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica: a review

• Published in: Reviews of Geophysics
• Main Authors: Nicholls, Keith W., Østerhus, Svein, Makinson, Keith, Gammelsrød, Tor, Fahrbach, Eberhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2009
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Glaciology; Hydrology; Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11164/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2007RG000250

Interactions between the Southern Ocean and the Weddell Sea ice shelves are important both to the Antarctic Ice Sheet and to the production of globally significant water masses. Here we review the interaction between the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and the shelf sea in which it floats. The continental...