Seasonal hydrography on the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf using seal tags

• Main Authors: Arthun, Marius, Nicholls, Keith W., Makinson, Keith, Fedak, Mike, Boehme, Lars
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Austral; Filchner Ice Shelf; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Ice Shelf; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/seasonal-hydrography-on-the-southern-weddell-sea-continental-shelf-using-seal-tags(736bc30e-6754-47a7-9f96-33aafaf641e5).html; http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/EGU2013-8674.pdf

To capture the austral summer to winter transition in water mass properties over the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf and slope region, 19 Weddell seals were tagged with miniaturized conductivity–temperature–depth sensors in February 2011. During the following 8 months the instruments yielded...