Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags
The work was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) iSTAR Programme through grants NE/J005703/1 (Karen Heywood and David Stevens) and NE/JOO5649/1 (Mike Fedak) and by the NERC EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership through grant NE/L002582/1 (Helen Mallett). Lars Boehme was supp...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/13535 2024-04-21T07:45:10+00:00 Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags Mallett, Helen K. W. Boehme, Lars Fedak, Mike Heywood, Karen J. Stevens, David P. Roquet, Fabien NERC University of St Andrews. School of Biology University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute 2018-05-25T08:30:12Z 9 2299780 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10023/13535 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077430 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL077430 eng eng Geophysical Research Letters 250569801 139b0eaa-fd78-4e5c-907c-c6155db959e6 85047522403 000435262000050 Mallett , H K W , Boehme , L , Fedak , M , Heywood , K J , Stevens , D P & Roquet , F 2018 , ' Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags ' , Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077430 1944-8007 ORCID: /0000-0002-9569-1128/work/47136224 https://hdl.handle.net/10023/13535 doi:10.1029/2018GL077430 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL077430 NE/J005649/1 Pine Island Glacier Ice-melt Circumpolar Deep Water Amundsen Sea GC Oceanography GE Environmental Sciences NDAS GC GE Journal article 2018 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077430 2024-03-27T15:07:39Z The work was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) iSTAR Programme through grants NE/J005703/1 (Karen Heywood and David Stevens) and NE/JOO5649/1 (Mike Fedak) and by the NERC EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership through grant NE/L002582/1 (Helen Mallett). Lars Boehme was supported by the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. In the Amundsen Sea, warm saline Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) crosses the continental shelf toward the vulnerable West Antarctic ice shelves, contributing to their basal melting. Due to lack of observations, little is known about the spatial and temporal variability of CDW, particularly seasonally. A new dataset of 6704 seal‐tag temperature and salinity profiles in the easternmost trough between February and December 2014 reveals a CDW layer on average 49 db thicker in late winter (August to October) than in late summer (February to April), the reverse seasonality of that seen at moorings in the western trough. This layer contains more heat in winter, but on the 27.76 kg/m3 density surface CDW is 0.32° C warmer in summer than winter, across the northeastern Amundsen sea, which may indicate wintertime shoaling offshelf changes CDW properties onshelf. In Pine Island Bay these seasonal changes on density surfaces are reduced, likely by gyre circulation. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelves Pine Island Bay Pine Island Glacier University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Geophysical Research Letters 45 10 4982 4990 |
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Pine Island Glacier Ice-melt Circumpolar Deep Water Amundsen Sea GC Oceanography GE Environmental Sciences NDAS GC GE Mallett, Helen K. W. Boehme, Lars Fedak, Mike Heywood, Karen J. Stevens, David P. Roquet, Fabien Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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The work was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) iSTAR Programme through grants NE/J005703/1 (Karen Heywood and David Stevens) and NE/JOO5649/1 (Mike Fedak) and by the NERC EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership through grant NE/L002582/1 (Helen Mallett). Lars Boehme was supported by the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. In the Amundsen Sea, warm saline Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) crosses the continental shelf toward the vulnerable West Antarctic ice shelves, contributing to their basal melting. Due to lack of observations, little is known about the spatial and temporal variability of CDW, particularly seasonally. A new dataset of 6704 seal‐tag temperature and salinity profiles in the easternmost trough between February and December 2014 reveals a CDW layer on average 49 db thicker in late winter (August to October) than in late summer (February to April), the reverse seasonality of that seen at moorings in the western trough. This layer contains more heat in winter, but on the 27.76 kg/m3 density surface CDW is 0.32° C warmer in summer than winter, across the northeastern Amundsen sea, which may indicate wintertime shoaling offshelf changes CDW properties onshelf. In Pine Island Bay these seasonal changes on density surfaces are reduced, likely by gyre circulation. Peer reviewed |
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NERC University of St Andrews. School of Biology University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute |
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Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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variation in the distribution and properties of circumpolar deep water in the eastern amundsen sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags |
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