Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break
Introduction: The continental shelf environment of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas differs markedly from that of the other circumpolar seas, where water temperatures are close to the surface freezing point throughout. In the Amundsen/Bellingshausen sector near-freezing temperatures are encounte...
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ftopenunivgb:oai:oro.open.ac.uk:36284 2023-06-11T04:03:35+02:00 Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break Jenkins, Adrian Hayes, Dan Brandon, Mark Pozzi-Walker, Ziggy Hardy, Sarah Banks, Christopher 2004 application/pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/36284/ https://oro.open.ac.uk/36284/1/jenkins%202004.pdf http://folk.uib.no/ngfso/FRISP/frispREP15.html# unknown https://oro.open.ac.uk/36284/1/jenkins%202004.pdf Jenkins, Adrian; Hayes, Dan; Brandon, Mark <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/mab49.html>; Pozzi-Walker, Ziggy; Hardy, Sarah and Banks, Christopher <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/cjb494.html> (2004). Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break. In: 17th International Workshop of the Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP), 17-18 Jun 2003, Cambridge, England, UK. Conference or Workshop Item Public NonPeerReviewed 2004 ftopenunivgb 2023-05-28T05:49:37Z Introduction: The continental shelf environment of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas differs markedly from that of the other circumpolar seas, where water temperatures are close to the surface freezing point throughout. In the Amundsen/Bellingshausen sector near-freezing temperatures are encountered only in the upper few hundred metres of the water column. Below this surface layer a broad thermocline trends towards upper Circumpolar Deep Water (uCDW), which is found in a form that is almost unmodified from its off-shelf manifestation (Giulivi and Jacobs, 1996). This means that the ice shelves of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas experience ocean temperatures some three degrees warmer than those experienced by the other Antarctic ice shelves, and the rates of basal melting are correspondingly high (Jacobs et al., 1996). Conference Object Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelves The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) Amundsen Sea Antarctic |
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Introduction: The continental shelf environment of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas differs markedly from that of the other circumpolar seas, where water temperatures are close to the surface freezing point throughout. In the Amundsen/Bellingshausen sector near-freezing temperatures are encountered only in the upper few hundred metres of the water column. Below this surface layer a broad thermocline trends towards upper Circumpolar Deep Water (uCDW), which is found in a form that is almost unmodified from its off-shelf manifestation (Giulivi and Jacobs, 1996). This means that the ice shelves of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas experience ocean temperatures some three degrees warmer than those experienced by the other Antarctic ice shelves, and the rates of basal melting are correspondingly high (Jacobs et al., 1996). |
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Jenkins, Adrian Hayes, Dan Brandon, Mark Pozzi-Walker, Ziggy Hardy, Sarah Banks, Christopher Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break |
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Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break |
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Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break |
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Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break |
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Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break |
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Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break |
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oceanographic observations at the amundsen sea shelf break |
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https://oro.open.ac.uk/36284/ https://oro.open.ac.uk/36284/1/jenkins%202004.pdf http://folk.uib.no/ngfso/FRISP/frispREP15.html# |
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https://oro.open.ac.uk/36284/1/jenkins%202004.pdf Jenkins, Adrian; Hayes, Dan; Brandon, Mark <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/mab49.html>; Pozzi-Walker, Ziggy; Hardy, Sarah and Banks, Christopher <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/cjb494.html> (2004). Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break. In: 17th International Workshop of the Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP), 17-18 Jun 2003, Cambridge, England, UK. |
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