Return of the Maud Rise Polynya: climate litmus or sea ice anomaly? [in 'State of the Climate in 2017']

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Swart, S, Campbell, EC, Heuze, CH, Johnson, K, Lieser, JL, Massom, R, Mazloff, M, Meredith, M, Reid, P, Sallee, J-B, Stammerjohn, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Meteorological Soc 2018
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Physical geography and environmental geoscience not elsewhere classified; Austral; Maud Rise; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams/2017; https://doi.org/10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/127528

The Maud Rise polynya is a persistent area of open water within the sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean, which overlies an area of elevated topography called Maud Rise (66S, 3E) located in the eastern sector of the Weddell Sea (Fig. SB6.1a). It is termed a Weddell polynya if it grows and migrates we...