Transport of warm Upper Circumpolar Deep Water onto the western Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Martinson, D. G., McKee, D. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2012
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-8-433-2012; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00025592; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00025547/os-8-433-2012.pdf; https://os.copernicus.org/articles/8/433/2012/os-8-433-2012.pdf

Five thermistor moorings were placed on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula (between 2007 and 2010) in an effort to identify the mechanism(s) responsible for delivering warm Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW) onto the broad continental shelf from the Antarctic Circumpolar Curre...