Observing Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean

Observing Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean

Dense, cold waters formed on Antarctic continental shelves descend along the Antarctic continental margin, where they mix with other Southern Ocean waters to form Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). AABW then spreads into the deepest parts of all major ocean basins, isolating heat and carbon from the atm...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Silvano, Sarah Purkey, Arnold L. Gordon, Pasquale Castagno, Andrew L. Stewart, Stephen R. Rintoul, Annie Foppert, Kathryn L. Gunn, Laura Herraiz-Borreguero, Shigeru Aoki, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Carl Spingys, Camille Hayatte Akhoudas, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Casimir de Lavergne, E. Povl Abrahamsen, Andrew J. S. Meijers, Michael P. Meredith, Shenjie Zhou, Takeshi Tamura, Kaihe Yamazaki, Kay I. Ohshima, Pierpaolo Falco, Giorgio Budillon, Tore Hattermann, Markus A. Janout, Pedro Llanillo, Melissa M. Bowen, Elin Darelius, Svein Østerhus, Keith W. Nicholls, Craig Stevens, Denise Fernandez, Laura Cimoli, Stanley S. Jacobs, Adele K. Morrison, Andrew McC. Hogg, F. Alexander Haumann, Ali Mashayek, Zhaomin Wang, Rodrigo Kerr, Guy D. Williams, Won Sang Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)
Southern Ocean
ice shelves
ocean warming
ocean freshening
Antarctic sea ice
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1221701/full

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