Return of the Maud Rise Polynya: climate litmus or sea ice anomaly? [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]
The Maud Rise polynya is a persistent area of open waterwithin the sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean, which overliesan area of elevated topography called Maud Rise (66°S, 3°E)located in the eastern sector of the Weddell Sea (Fig. SB6.1a).It is termed a “Weddell polynya” if it grows and migrates we...
Published in: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Amer Meteorological Soc
2018
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Online Access: | https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27884/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27884/1/Ch061_Antarctica.pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27884/2/State%20of%20the%20Climate%202017%20front%20matter%20in%20BAMS.pdf https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams/2017 |