Upper ocean stratification and sea ice growth rates during the summer-fall transition, as revealed by Elephant seal foraging in the Ad´elie Depression, East Antarctica

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Williams, GD, Hindell, M, Houssais, MN, Tamura, T, Field, IC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Antarctic; Commonwealth Bay; East Antarctica; George V Land; Mertz Glacier; Mertz Glacier Tongue; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Iceberg*; Macquarie Island; Mirounga leonina; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-7-185-2011; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/76814

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina), fitted with Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensors at Macquarie Island in January 2005 and 2010, collected unique oceanographic observations of the Adlie and George V Land continental shelf (140C148 E) during the summer-fall transition (late February throu...