Freshwater transport at Fimbulisen, Antarctica

[1] The intricate near-circumpolar system of fronts and currents surrounding Antarctica isolates much of Earth's freshwater from the saline oceans immediately north. The Antarctic Slope Front sustains bathymetrically steered flow at the shelf break, whereas the shallow Coastal Current travels r...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Geophysical Research
Main Authors: Walkden, Graham J., Heywood, Karen J., Nicholls, Keith W., Abrahamsen, Povl
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Antarctic
Fimbulisen
The Antarctic
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Antarctica
Antarctica Journal
Online Access:https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24361/
https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JC005028
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Summary:[1] The intricate near-circumpolar system of fronts and currents surrounding Antarctica isolates much of Earth's freshwater from the saline oceans immediately north. The Antarctic Slope Front sustains bathymetrically steered flow at the shelf break, whereas the shallow Coastal Current travels rapidly alongside the ice front. A hydrographic survey of the southeastern Weddell Sea finds these two features to have merged near the narrow (

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