The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

M Vernet, W Geibert, M Hoppema… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to seasonal Arctic sea ice thickness distributions from airborne observations

L von Albedyll, S Hendricks, R Grodofzig… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
Sea ice thickness is a key parameter in the polar climate and ecosystem. Thermodynamic
and dynamic processes alter the sea ice thickness. The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory …

Delivering sustained, coordinated, and integrated observations of the Southern Ocean for global impact

L Newman, P Heil, R Trebilco, K Katsumata… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Southern Ocean is disproportionately important in its effect on the Earth system,
impacting climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, which makes recent observed …

Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx): 2. Evaluating linear kinematic features in high‐resolution sea ice simulations

N Hutter, A Bouchat, F Dupont… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Simulating sea ice drift and deformation in the Arctic Ocean is still a challenge because of
the multiscale interaction of sea ice floes that compose the Arctic Sea ice cover. The Sea Ice …

Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx): 1. Scaling and statistical properties of sea‐ice deformation fields

A Bouchat, N Hutter, J Chanut, F Dupont… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the sea‐ice modeling community is shifting to advanced numerical frameworks,
developing new sea‐ice rheologies, and increasing model spatial resolution, ubiquitous …

Sea ice drift tracks from autonomous buoys in the MOSAiC Distributed Network

AC Bliss, JK Hutchings, DM Watkins - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
A network of autonomous, ice-tethered buoys was deployed around the Multidisciplinary
drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) experiment in late September …

Atmospheric drivers of a winter-to-spring Lagrangian sea-ice drift in the Eastern Antarctic marginal ice zone

A Womack, M Vichi, A Alberello, A Toffoli - Journal of Glaciology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Sea-ice drift in the Antarctic marginal ice zone (MIZ) is discussed using data from a 4-month-
long drift of a buoy deployed on a pancake ice floe during the winter sea-ice expansion. We …

Evidence of abrupt transitions between sea ice dynamical regimes in the East Greenland marginal ice zone

DM Watkins, AC Bliss, JK Hutchings… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice modulates the energy exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean through its
kinematics. Marginal ice zone (MIZ) dynamics are complex and are not well resolved in …

Observed changes in sea-ice floe size distribution during early summer in the western Weddell Sea

A Steer, A Worby, P Heil - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2008 - Elsevier
Digital aerial photographs are used to measure the change in floe size distribution over an
area of the western Weddell Sea during the Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL) program. The …