Water Mass Transformations Within Prydz Bay Coastal Polynyas from Clustered Drifters

• Main Author: Murakami, Margaret
• Other Authors: Helsingin yliopisto, Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, Helsingfors universitet, Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Helsingin yliopisto 2023
• Subjects: Lagrangian analysis; Southern Ocean overturning; water mass transformations; oceanography; Ilmakehätieteiden maisteriohjelma (Atmospheric Sciences); Master's Programme in Atmospheric Sciences; Magisterprogrammet i atmosfärsvetenskaper; Hydrosfäärin geofysiikka; Geophysics of the Hydrosphere; Hydrosfärens geofysik; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; East Antarctica; Prydz Bay; Antarctic Ocean; Darnley; Cape Darnley; Prydz Channel; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/357675

Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), a water mass that sinks to form the deepest limb of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC), is a key control on the ventilation of the Southern Ocean as well as global exchanges of heat, freshwater, and carbon. Sources of this water mass include latent heat polyn...