Sources and levels of ambient ocean sound near the Antarctic Peninsula. by Robert P Dziak, DelWayne R Bohnenstiehl, Kathleen M Stafford, Haruyoshi Matsumoto, Minkyu Park, Won Sang Lee, Matt J Fowler, Tai-Kwan Lau, Joseph H Haxel, David K Mellinger

“…Blue whale call energy is a maximum during austral summer-fall in the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait when ambient noise levels are a maximum and sea-ice cover is a minimum. …”
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The oceanic tides in the South Atlantic Ocean by M. L. Genco, F. Lyard, C. Le Provost

“…The marine boundary conditions, from Dakar to Natal, through the Drake passage and from South Africa to Antarctica, are deduced from in situ data and from Schwiderski's solution and then optimised following a procedure previously developed by the authors. …”
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Enhanced subglacial discharge from Antarctica during meltwater pulse 1A by Tao Li, Laura F. Robinson, Graeme A. MacGilchrist, Tianyu Chen, Joseph A. Stewart, Andrea Burke, Maoyu Wang, Gaojun Li, Jun Chen, James W. B. Rae

“…Here we present deep-sea coral 234U/238U records from the Drake Passage in the Southern Ocean to track subglacial discharge from the AIS. …”
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Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy and PCR Amplification Bias Lead to Wrong Species Delimitation with High Confidence in the South American and Antarctic Marine Bivalve <i>Aequiyoldia eigh... by Mariano Martínez, Lars Harms, Doris Abele, Christoph Held

“…Whilst all the data suggest that populations on either side of the Drake Passage belong to different species, the picture is less clear within Antarctic populations, which harbor three distinct mitochondrial lineages (p-dist ≈ 6%) that coexist in populations and in a subset of individuals with heteroplasmy. …”
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A Microscale View of Mixing and Overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Polzin, Kurt L., Ferrari, Raffaele, Zika, Jan D., Forryan, Alexander

“…The relative roles of isoneutral stirring by mesoscale eddies and dianeutral stirring by small-scale turbulence in setting the large-scale temperature–salinity relation of the Southern Ocean against the action of the overturning circulation are assessed by analyzing a set of shear and temperature microstructure measurements across Drake Passage in a “triple decomposition” framework. …”
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Topographic enhancement of vertical turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean by Garabato, A. Naveira, Mashayekhi, Alireza, Ferrari, Raffaele, Merrifield, Sophia Tiare, Ledwell, James R, St.Laurent, Louis C.

“…The diapycnal and isopycnal mixing experiment in the Southern Ocean found the turbulent diffusivity inferred from the vertical spreading of a tracer to be an order of magnitude larger than that inferred from the microstructure profiles at the mean tracer depth of 1,500 m in the Drake Passage. Using a high-resolution ocean model, it is shown that the fast vertical spreading of tracer occurs when it comes in contact with mixing hotspots over rough topography. …”
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Impact of Current‐Wind Interaction on Vertical Processes in the Southern Ocean by Song, Hajoon, Marshall, John C, McGillicuddy, Dennis J. Jr., Seo, Hyodae

“…Here, using an eddy-resolving 1/20 degree ocean model configured near Drake Passage, we evaluate the impact of current-wind interaction on vertical processes. …”
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Changes in micronutrient supply to the surface Southern Ocean (Atlantic sector) across the glacial termination by Hendry, K, Rickaby, R, Allen, C

“…We present two downcore (Zn/Si)opal records from the Scotia Sea and Drake Passage region, which we interpret in the context of micronutrient distribution in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean over the last glacial termination. …”

Upper-ocean temperature characteristics in the subantarctic southeastern Pacific based on biomarker reconstructions by J. R. Hagemann, L. Lembke-Jene, F. Lamy, M.-E. Vorrath, J. Kaiser, J. Müller, H. W. Arz, J. Hefter, A. Jaeschke, N. Ruggieri, R. Tiedemann

“…We analyzed 33 sediment surface samples from the southern Chilean continental margin and the Drake Passage for alkenones and isoGDGTs and compared the results with gridded instrumental reference data from the World Ocean Atlas 2005 (WOA05) and previously published data from an extended study area covering the central and western South Pacific towards the Aotearoa / New Zealand continental margin. …”
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Brazil-Malvinas Confluence upper ocean temperature anomalies induced by an ENSO wind forcing by LPF Assad, A R Torres Jr, R N Candella, A S Mascarenhas Jr

“…The occurrence of positive anomalies was always associated with an enhanced BC meridional surface volume transport, together with a decrease of the ACC zonal volume transport, vertically integrated across the Drake Passage, and a correspondent decrease in the upper layer MC volume transport. …”
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Water Circulation and Marine Environment in the Antarctic Traced by Speciation of 129I and 127I by Shan Xing, Xiaolin Hou, Ala Aldahan, Göran Possnert, Keliang Shi, Peng Yi, Weijian Zhou

“…Surface seawater samples from the Drake Passage, Bellingshausen, Amundsen, and Ross Seas were analyzed for total 129I and 127I, as well as for iodide and iodate of these two isotopes. …”
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Characterisation of the nematode community of a low-activity cold seep in the recently ice-shelf free Larsen B area, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula. by Freija Hauquier, Jeroen Ingels, Julian Gutt, Maarten Raes, Ann Vanreusel

“…Since both limited particle sedimentation under previously permanent ice coverage and reduced cold-seep activity are likely to influence benthic meiofauna communities, we characterised the nematode assemblage of this low-activity cold seep and compared it with other, now seasonally ice-free, Larsen A and B stations and other Antarctic shelf areas (Weddell Sea and Drake Passage), as well as cold-seep ecosystems world-wide. …”
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Breeding Thin-Billed Prions Use Marine Habitats Ranging from Inshore to Distant Antarctic Waters by Petra Quillfeldt, Andreas Bange, Aude Boutet, Rachael A. Orben, Alastair M. M. Baylis

“…Previous studies using stable isotope data and geolocators suggested that Thin-billed Prions breeding in the Falkland Islands in the Southwest Atlantic may forage in temperate waters over the Patagonian Shelf or cross the Drake Passage to forage in Antarctic waters south of the Polar Front. …”
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Fish Teeth Sr Isotope Stratigraphy and Nd Isotope Variations: New Insights on REY Enrichments in Deep-Sea Sediments in the Pacific by Fenlian Wang, Gaowen He, Xiguang Deng, Yong Yang, Jiangbo Ren

“…Since the opening of the Drake Passage during the early Oligocene, the northward-flowing Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) would have led to an upwelling of nutrients around seamounts with topographic barriers, and at the same time, AABW would delay the rate of sediment burial to try for enough time for REY entering and enriching in the apatite (fish teeth debris). …”
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A Multiwavenumber Theory for Eddy Diffusivities and Its Application to the Southeast Pacific (DIMES) Region by Gille, Sarah T., McClean, Julie L., Griesel, Alexa, Flierl, Glenn Richard, Chen, Ru, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“…The multiwavenumber theory was tested in a region of the Southern Ocean (70°–45°S, 110°–20°W) that covers the Drake Passage and includes the tracer/float release locations during the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES). …”
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The Force Balance of the Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation by Mazloff, Matthew R., Ferrari, Raffaele, Schneider, Tapio

“…Nonvanishing time-mean pressure gradients arise because isopycnal layers intersect topography or the surface in a circumpolar integral, leading to a largely geostrophic MOC even in the latitude band of Drake Passage. It is the geostrophic water mass transport in the surface layer where isopycnals outcrop that accomplishes the poleward buoyancy transport.…”
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The Impact of Finite-Amplitude Bottom Topography on Internal Wave Generation in the Southern Ocean by Nikurashin, Maxim Anatolevich, Ferrari, Raffaele, Grisouard, Nicolas, Polzin, Kurt

“…This study presents two- and three-dimensional, realistic topography simulations of internal lee-wave generation from a steady flow interacting with topography with parameters typical of Drake Passage. The results demonstrate that internal wave generation at three-dimensional, finite bottom topography is reduced compared to the two-dimensional case. …”
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Tectonic evolution of the Southern Austral-Magallanes Basin in Tierra Del Fuego by Rocío E. Gallardo Jara, Matías C. Ghiglione, Lisandro Rojas Galliani

“…Since the Neogene to Recent, the Fueguian Andes were affected by transpressive tectonics related to the opening of the Drake Passage. This contribution is a review, and pretend to account the stratigraphic and the structural evolution of the basin of the southernmost Patagonia and its fold-and-thrust belt associated, summarized in a regional stratigraphic correlations for Late Jurassic–Quaternary rock units throughout the southern Austral-Magallanes basin. …”
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Characterization of gravity waves in the lower ionosphere using very low frequency observations at Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Station by E. Correia, E. Correia, L. T. M. Raunheitte, J. V. Bageston, D. E. D'Amico

“…The analysis considered the VLF signal transmitted from the US Cutler, Maine (NAA) station that was received at Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Station (EACF, 62.1<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span>&thinsp;S, 58.4<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span>&thinsp;W), with its great circle path crossing the Drake Passage longitudinally. The wave periods of the GWs detected in the low ionosphere are obtained using the wavelet analysis applied to the VLF amplitude. …”
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Advances and Accuracy Assessment of Ocean Tide Models in the Antarctic Ocean by Weikang Sun, Weikang Sun, Xinghua Zhou, Xinghua Zhou, Dongxu Zhou, Yanfei Sun

“…The accuracy of FES 2014, TPXO9, CATS 2008, and the regional tide model in the Drake Passage, Kerguelen Islands, and Adelie–Mertz was evaluated using satellite altimetry data. …”
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