Seasonal inflow of warm water onto the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Årthun, Marius, Nicholls, Keith W., Makinson, Keith, Fedak, Michael A., Boehme, Lars
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2012
• Subjects: Weddell Sea; Austral; Weddell; Filchner Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20094/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20094/1/2012GL052856.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL052856

To capture the austral summer to winter transition in water mass properties over the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf and slope region, 19 Weddell seals were tagged with miniaturized conductivity–temperature–depth sensors in February 2011. During the following 8 months the instruments yielded...