Reversal of freshening trend of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Australian-Antarctic Basin during 2010s

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Aoki, S., Yamazaki, K., Hirano, D., Katsumata, K., Shimada, K., Kitade, Y., Sasaki, H., Murase, H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Basin; Australian-Antarctic Basin; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492216/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71290-6

The Antarctic continental margin supplies the densest bottom water to the global abyss. From the late twentieth century, an acceleration in the long-term freshening of Antarctic Bottom Waters (AABW) has been detected in the Australian-Antarctic Basin. Our latest hydrographic observations reveal that...