Tides regulate the flow and density of Antarctic Bottom Water from the western Ross Sea

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Bowen, Melissa M., Fernandez, Denise, Gordon, Arnold L., Huber, Bruce, Castagno, Pasquale, Falco, Pierpaolo, Budillon, Giorgio, Gunn, Kathryn L., Forcen-Vazquez, Aitana
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Drygalski; Ross Sea; Terra Nova Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9995308/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36890202; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31008-w

Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) stores heat and gases over decades to centuries after contact with the atmosphere during formation on the Antarctic shelf and subsequent flow into the global deep ocean. Dense water from the western Ross Sea, a primary source of AABW, shows changes in water properties a...