Temperature and moisture transport during atmospheric blocking patterns around the Antarctic Peninsula by Deniz Bozkurt, Julio C. Marín, Bradford S. Barrett

“…ERA5 results highlight the importance of blocking days over the EAP domain (largely centered over the Drake Passage) to the occurrence of warm events associated with northerly and northwesterly warm air transport. …”
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Decadal Scale Variability of Larsen Ice Shelf Melt Captured by Antarctic Peninsula Ice Core by B. Daniel Emanuelsson, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Jack D. Humby, Diana O. Vladimirova

“…In contrast, during the IPO negative phase (1999–2011), northerly winds caused a reduction in sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea/Drake Passage region. Moreover, a Southern Ocean north of the Weddell Sea high-pressure system caused low-latitude warm humid air over the tip and east of the AP, a setting that is associated with increased northern AP snowfall, a high δ¹⁸O anomaly, and less prone to Larsen ice shelf melt.…”
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A two-dimensional Stockwell transform for gravity wave analysis of AIRS measurements by N. P. Hindley, N. D. Smith, C. J. Wright, D. A. S. Rees, N. J. Mitchell

“…We then use our improved method to measure GW properties and momentum fluxes in AIRS measurements over two regions known to be intense hotspots of GW activity: (i) the Drake Passage/Antarctic Peninsula and (ii) the isolated mountainous island of South Georgia. …”
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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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Relationship between thermoelectric figure of merit and energy conversion efficiency by Kim, Hee Seok, Liu, Weishu, Chen, Gang, Chu, Ching-Wu, Ren, Zhifeng

“…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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Float-Derived Isopycnal Diffusivities in the DIMES Experiment by Balwada, D., Speer, K., Ferrari, Raffaele, Tulloch, Ross, LaCasce, Joseph H., 1964-, Marshall, John C

“…As part of the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES), 210 subsurface floats were deployed west of the Drake Passage on two targeted density surfaces. Absolute (single particle) diffusivities are calculated for the floats. …”
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Nutrient limitation of marine phytoplankton by Browning, T

“…Two thesis chapters present the results of bottle enrichment experiments at high spatial resolution across (i) the South Subtropical Convergence (SSTC) in the South Atlantic, and (ii) the Scotia Sea-Drake Passage sector of the Southern Ocean. These studies have added detail to the boundaries of limiting nutrients in these regions. …”

Natural iron enrichment around the Antarctic Peninsula in the Southern Ocean by M. V. Ardelan, O. Holm-Hansen, C. D. Hewes, C. S. Reiss, N. S. Silva, H. Dulaiova, E. Steinnes, E. Sakshaug

“…The concentrations of DFe and TaLFe in the upper mixed layer (UML) were relatively high in Weddell Sea Shelf Waters (~0.6 nM and 15 nM, respectively) and low in Drake Passage waters (~0.2 nM and 0.9 nM, respectively). …”
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Modeling Distribution and Abundance of Antarctic Baleen Whales Using Ships of Opportunity by Rob Williams, Sharon L. Hedley, Philip S. Hammond

“…Models were used to map predicted densities and to estimate abundance of humpback, minke, and fin whales in the Drake Passage and along the Antarctic Peninsula. All species' distribution maps showed strong density gradients, which were robust to jackknife resampling when each of 14 trips was removed sequentially with replacement. …”
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The sensitivity of the Eocene–Oligocene Southern Ocean to the strength and position of wind stress by Q. Xing, Q. Xing, D. Munday, A. Klocker, I. Sauermilch, J. Whittaker

“…<p>The early Cenozoic opening of the Tasmanian Gateway (TG) and Drake Passage (DP), alongside the synergistic action of the westerly winds, led to a Southern Ocean transition from large, subpolar gyres to the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). …”
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Wind-driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO[subscript 2] by Lauderdale, Jonathan, Garabato, Alberto C. Naveira, Oliver, Kevin I. C., Williams, Richard G., Follows, Michael J

“…Wind-induced changes in the model carbon inventory are dominated by the response of the global pycnocline, although there is an additional abyssal response when the peak westerly winds change their latitude, altering their proximity to Drake Passage and changing the depth extent of the southward return flow of the overturning: a northward shift of the westerly winds isolates dense isopycnals, allowing biogenic carbon to accumulate in the deep ocean of the Southern Hemisphere, while a southward shift shoals dense isopycnals that outcrop in the Southern Ocean and reduces the biogenic carbon store in the deep ocean.…”
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Boundary constraints on the large-scale ocean circulation by Jonathan, T

“…</p> <p>Applying a similar decomposition diagnostic to the ACC provides insight into the differences between model simulations, revealing spatial resolution dependence of ACC transport through the Drake Passage. All models exhibit a weak ACC compared to observations, the $1/4^\circ$ model showing significant weakening over the first $40$ years of simulation. …”

Exopolymeric Substances Control Microbial Community Structure and Function by Contributing to both C and Fe Nutrition in Fe-Limited Southern Ocean Provinces by Sonia Blanco-Ameijeiras, Damien J. E. Cabanes, Rachel N. Cable, Scarlett Trimborn, Stéphan Jacquet, Sonja Wiegmann, Christian Völkner, Florian Lelchat, Astrid Bracher, Melissa B. Duhaime, Christel S. Hassler

“…While the particulate organic carbon (POC) was modulated by Fe chemistry and bioavailability in the Drake Passage, the abundance and diversity of microbes and viruses were not governed by Fe bioavailability. …”
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New insights on the role of organic speciation in the biogeochemical cycle of dissolved cobalt in the southeastern Atlantic and the Southern Ocean by J. Bown, M. Boye, D. M. Nelson

“…At those depths the eastward increase of DCo from the Drake Passage to the Greenwich Meridian could be associated with a large scale transport and remineralisation of DCo as organic complexes; here, the fraction stabilized as inorganic Co was also significant (up to 25%) in the low oxygenated Upper Circumpolar Deep Waters. …”
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An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate by Mazloff, Matthew R., Heimbach, Patrick, Wunsch, Carl Isaac

“…During the estimation period, the Drake Passage volume transport is 153 ± 5 Sv (1 Sv ≡ 106 m3 s−1) [(1 Sv = 10 superscript 6 m superscript 3 superscript -1)]. …”
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The Subantarctic Rayadito (Aphrastura subantarctica), a new bird species on the southernmost islands of the Americas by Ricardo Rozzi, Claudio S. Quilodrán, Esteban Botero-Delgadillo, Constanza Napolitano, Juan C. Torres-Mura, Omar Barroso, Ramiro D. Crego, Camila Bravo, Silvina Ippi, Verónica Quirici, Roy Mackenzie, Cristián G. Suazo, Juan Rivero-de-Aguilar, Bernard Goffinet, Bart Kempenaers, Elie Poulin, Rodrigo A. Vásquez

“…The discovery of this endemic passerine highlights the need to monitor and conserve this still-pristine archipelago devoid of exotic species, which is now protected by the recently created Diego Ramírez Islands-Drake Passage Marine Park.…”
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Cold vs. warm water route – sources for the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation revisited in a high-resolution ocean model by S. Rühs, S. Rühs, S. Rühs, F. U. Schwarzkopf, S. Speich, A. Biastoch, A. Biastoch

“…<p>The northward flow of the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is fed by waters entering the South Atlantic from the Indian Ocean mainly via the Agulhas Current (AC) system and by waters entering from the Pacific through Drake Passage (DP), commonly referred to as the “warm” and “cold” water routes, respectively. …”
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Potential interactions between diatoms and bacteria are shaped by trace element gradients in the Southern Ocean by Alexa R. Sterling, Laura Z. Holland, Randelle M. Bundy, Shannon M. Burns, Kristen N. Buck, Kristen N. Buck, P. Dreux Chappell, Bethany D. Jenkins, Bethany D. Jenkins

“…To examine the relationships between diatoms and bacteria in the plankton (diatom) size class (&gt; 3 µm), we sampled both bacterial and diatom community composition with accompanying environmental metadata across a naturally occurring concentration gradient of macronutrients, trace metals and siderophores at 21 stations near the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Offshore Drake Passage stations had low dissolved iron (0.33 ± 0.15 nM), while the stations closer to the continental margin had higher dissolved iron (5.05 ± 1.83 nM). …”
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Weddell-Scotia Confluence Effect on the Iron Distribution in Waters Surrounding the South Shetland (Antarctic Peninsula) and South Orkney (Scotia Sea) Islands During the Austral Su... by Nicolas Sanchez, Christian S. Reiss, Osmund Holm-Hansen, Christopher D. Hewes, Kemal C. Bizsel, Murat V. Ardelan

“…Northwest of the SSI, a region influenced by Drake Passage (DP) waters, mean DFe (∼0.26 nM) and TaLFe (∼1.02 nM) concentrations were the lowest, whereas intermediate concentrations for both DFe and TaLFe were measured in the Bransfield Strait (BS). …”
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Highly branched isoprenoids for Southern Ocean sea ice reconstructions: a pilot study from the Western Antarctic Peninsula by M.-E. Vorrath, J. Müller, J. Müller, J. Müller, O. Esper, G. Mollenhauer, G. Mollenhauer, C. Haas, E. Schefuß, K. Fahl

“…<p>Organic geochemical and micropaleontological analyses of surface sediments collected in the southern Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait, Western Antarctic Peninsula, enable a proxy-based reconstruction of recent sea ice conditions in this climate-sensitive area. …”
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