Rapid volume reduction in Antarctic Bottom Water off the Adélie/George V Land coast observed by deep floats

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Author: Kobayashi, Taiyo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; George V Land; Mertz Glacier; Mertz Glacier Tongue; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44672/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44672/1/Kobayashi.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.07.014

Recent changes in the Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) off the Adélie/George V Land coast, East Antarctica, were examined using 20-months observation with deep floats and historical hydrographic surveys. The salinity of the AABW along isopycnals was largely reduced by about 0.005 during the winter of 2...