Revisiting interior water mass responses to surface forcing changes and the subsequent effects on overturning in the Southern Ocean

JE Tesdal, GA MacGilchrist, RL Beadling… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two coupled climate models, differing primarily in horizontal resolution and treatment of
mesoscale eddies, were used to assess the impact of perturbations in wind stress and …

Zonal distribution of Circumpolar Deep Water transformation rates and its relation to heat content on Antarctic shelves

A Narayanan, ST Gille, MR Mazloff… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze 15‐year of observational data and a 5‐year Southern Ocean model simulation
to quantify the transformation rates of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) and the associated …

Basal Channel System and Polynya Effect on a Regional Air‐Ice‐Ocean‐Biology Environment System in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

T Wang, C Zhou, Y Qian, G Chen, D Zhu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction of air‐ice‐ocean‐biology plays a key role in the global environment and sea‐
level changes. The basal channel at the bottom of the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) and the …

Observed tidal currents in Prydz Bay and their contribution to the Amery Ice Shelf basal melting

C Liu, Z Wang, X Liang, X Li, C Cheng… - Ocean-Land …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Tides play a key role in regulating the circulation and water properties around Antarctica, yet
tidal currents and the corresponding influences in Prydz Bay have not been quantified with …

Stratification breakdown in Antarctic coastal polynyas. Part I: Influence of physical factors on the destratification time scale

Y Xu, W Zhang, T Maksym, R Ji… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study examines the process of water-column stratification breakdown in Antarctic
coastal polynyas adjacent to an ice shelf with a cavity underneath. This first part of a two-part …

Stratification breakdown in Antarctic coastal polynyas. Part II: Influence of an ice tongue and coastline geometry

Y Xu, W Zhang, T Maksym, R Ji… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
This is Part II of a study examining wintertime destratification in Antarctic coastal polynyas,
focusing on providing a qualitative description of the influence of ice tongues and …

Transport of anthropogenic carbon from the Antarctic shelf to deep Southern Ocean triggers acidification

S Zhang, Y Wu, WJ Cai, W Cai, RA Feely… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flow of dense shelf water provide an efficient mechanism for pumping CO2 to the deep
ocean along the continental shelf slope, particularly around the Antarctic bottom water …

Sea ice production in the 2016 and 2017 Maud Rise polynyas

L Zhou, C Heuzé, M Mohrmann - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice production within polynyas, an outcome of the atmosphere‐ice‐ocean interaction, is
a major source of dense water and hence key to the global overturning circulation, but is …

Identifying the Most (Cost‐)Efficient Regions for CO2 Removal With Iron Fertilization in the Southern Ocean

LT Bach, V Tamsitt, K Baldry, J McGee… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) aims to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere by
stimulating phytoplankton carbon‐fixation and subsequent deep ocean carbon …

Circumpolar distributions of age and anthropogenic CO2 content of Antarctic Bottom Water revealed by chlorofluorocarbon and sulfur hexafluoride

Y Ohashi, M Yamamoto-Kawai, K Kusahara… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) sequesters anthropogenic CO 2 (C ant) over the
long-term and impacts the global carbon cycle. In this study, data of chlorofluorocarbon and …