A NOTE ON WATER EXCHANGE UNDER FAST ICE IN LUTZOW-HOLM BAY, ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: Kay I. OHSHIMA, Nobuo ONO, Takatoshi TAKIZAWA, Shuki USHIO
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University 1991
• Subjects: Ongul; Syowa Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3644; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003644/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3644&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Under coastal fast ice in the Ongul Strait near Syowa Station, Antarctica, warmer, more saline, and oxygen-poorer water appears in mid-depth and deep layers from winter to spring every year. This water is explained as a result of mixing between Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) and Winter Water (WW). Thi...