On the Role of Coastal Troughs in the Circulation of Warm Circumpolar Deep Water on Antarctic Shelves

• Main Authors: St-Laurent, Pierre, Klinck, John M., Dinniman, Michael S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 2013
• Subjects: Continental shelf; Ocean circulation; Water depth; Thermodynamics; Watering troughs; Rossby waves; Coastal flows; Mesoscale processes; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Marguerite; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/6; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=ccpo_pubs

Oceanic exchanges across the continental shelves of Antarctica play an important role in biological systems and the mass balance of ice sheets. The focus of this study is on the mechanisms responsible for the circulation of warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) within troughs running perpendicular to th...