Connection between the Tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean and Temperature Anomaly across West Antarctic by Ping Zhang, Anmin Duan

“…The northerlies advect warmer air to the Ross–Amundsen Seas, but southerlies advect colder air to the Antarctic Peninsula–Weddell Sea, resulting in the dipole of SAT anomalies over the West Antarctic. …”
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Summer Nighttime Anomalies of Ionospheric Electron Content at Midlatitudes: Comparing Years of Low and High Solar Activities Using Observations and Tidal/Planetary Wave Features by Yu Yin, Guillermo González-Casado, Adrià Rovira-Garcia, José Miguel Juan, Jaume Sanz, Yixie Shao

“…The main component that appears to produce the Weddell Sea Anomaly is D0, followed by SPW1, DW2, and DE1, in this order, which make secondary but still relevant contributions. …”
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Formation and distribution of water masses on the shelf and continental slope around Antarctica by A. V. Klepikov, N. N. Antipov

“…On all shelves of the East and, partly, the West Antarctica (from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, inclusive), this water mass was found having different volumes and different salinities. …”
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Oceanic response to changes in the WAIS and astronomical forcing during the MIS31 superinterglacial by F. Justino, D. Lindemann, F. Kucharski, A. Wilson, D. Bromwich, F. Stordal

“…However, sea ice changes are remarkable, highlighted by decreased (increased) cover in the Ross (Weddell) Sea but widespread reductions in sea ice across the NH.…”
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New free-living nematode species and records (Chromadorea: Plectida and Desmodorida) from the edge and axis of Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific Ocean by Daniel Leduc

“…Prior to the present study, Alaimella had only been recorded from coastal locations and from the Weddell sea to a depth of 2,000 m. The record of Desmodora aff. pilosa at 6,080 m depth is the deepest record of a Desmodora species to date, although unidentified Desmodora specimens have been found as deep as 6,300 m in the South Sandwich Trench. …”
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Diurnal lake-level cycles on ice shelves driven by meltwater input and ocean tidal tilt by Douglas R. MacAyeal, Ian C. Willis, Alison F. Banwell, Grant J. Macdonald, Becky Goodsell

“…However, we do not rule out tidal tilt as a source of centimeter scale variations, and point to the possibility that other, larger supraglacial lake systems, particularly those on ice shelves that experience higher amplitude tidal tilts, such as in the Weddell Sea, may have depth cycles driven by ocean tide. …”
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Tintinnid ciliates (marine microzooplankton) of the Ross Sea by John R. Dolan, Wuju Son, Hyoung Sul La, Jisoo Park, Eun Jin Yang

“…Comparing species accumulation curves for the Ross Sea and the relatively well-studied Weddell Sea, it appears that the Ross Sea may be more species-rich.…”
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A new subseasonal atmospheric teleconnection bridging tropical deep convection over the western North Pacific and Antarctic weather by Yuexiang Sun, Benkui Tan

“…Surface air temperature (SAT) rises over the Ross Sea‐Mawson‐Dumont d'Urville Seas sector and over the Weddell Sea, while the SAT drops over the Amundsen–Bellingshausen Seas. …”
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Cryptophyte and Photosynthetic Picoeukaryote Abundances in the Bransfield Strait during Austral Summer by Vladimir Mukhanov, Evgeny Sakhon, Alexander Polukhin, Vladimir Artemiev, Eugene Morozov, An-Yi Tsai

“…In this study, flow cytometry was used to quantify the smallest phytoplankton in the central Bransfield Strait and explore their distribution across the strait in relation to physical and chemical properties of the two major water masses: the warmer and less saline Transitional Zonal Water with Bellingshausen Sea influence (TBW), and the cold and salty Transitional Zonal Water with Weddell Sea influence (TWW). Pico- and nano-phytoplankton clusters were distinguished and enumerated in the cytograms: photosynthetic picoeukaryotes, cryptophytes (about 9 µm in size), and smaller (3 µm) nanophytoplankton. …”
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Changes in the Antarctic’s Summer Surface Albedo, Observed by Satellite since 1982 and Associated with Sea Ice Anomalies by Yuqi Sun, Yetang Wang, Zhaosheng Zhai, Min Zhou

“…For sea ice albedo, positive trends are observed in the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, but negative trends are observed in the Bellingshausen and the Amundsen Seas. …”
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Water stable isotopes in snow along a traverse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: insights into moisture origins, air-masses distillation history, and climatic value by ANDRESSA MARCHER, RONALDO T. BERNARDO, JEFFERSON C. SIMÕES, JEFFREY AUGER

“…Our isotopic results were sensitive to capturing the well-known climatic asymmetry between the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Sea (ABS; which receives more influence from warmer (oceanic) air masses) and Weddell Sea (WS; more influenced by colder (continental) air masses) sectors. …”
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Nitrous oxide variability at sub-kilometre resolution in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean by Imke Grefe, Sophie Fielding, Karen J. Heywood, Jan Kaiser

“…Covering a range of different environments and biogeochemical settings, N2O saturations and sea-to-air fluxes were highly variable: Saturations ranged from 96.5% at the sea ice edge in the Weddell Sea to 126.1% across the Polar Frontal Zone during transit to South Georgia. …”
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Efficient Extraction of Past Seawater Pb and Nd Isotope Signatures From Southern Ocean Sediments by H. Huang, M. Gutjahr, G. Kuhn, Ed C. Hathorne, A. Eisenhauer

“…Our findings also indicate that in contrast previously studied sites on the West Antarctic continental shelf, the bottom seawater Nd concentration is less elevated through benthic fluxes in the area of the southern Weddell Sea shelf.…”
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Juvenile emperor penguin range calls for extended conservation measures in the Southern Ocean by Aymeric Houstin, Daniel P. Zitterbart, Karine Heerah, Olaf Eisen, Víctor Planas-Bielsa, Ben Fabry, Céline Le Bohec

“…By tracking eight juvenile emperor penguins in the Weddell Sea over 1 year and performing a meta-analysis including previously known data from other colonies, we show that conservation efforts in the Southern Ocean are insufficient for protecting this highly mobile species, and particularly its juveniles. …”
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World Ocean Circulation Experiment – Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology by V. Gouretski

“…Specifically, the WAGHC climatology improved the representation of the thermohaline structure, in both the data poor polar regions and several data abundant regions like the Baltic Sea, the Caspian sea, the Gulf of California, the Caribbean Sea, and the Weddell Sea. Further, the dependence of the ocean heat content anomaly (OHCA) time series on the baseline climatology was tested. …”
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Biologging of emperor penguins—Attachment techniques and associated deployment performance by Aymeric Houstin, Daniel P. Zitterbart, Alexander Winterl, Sebastian Richter, Víctor Planas-Bielsa, Damien Chevallier, André Ancel, Jérôme Fournier, Ben Fabry, Céline Le Bohec

“…We equipped adult emperor penguins for short-term (GPS, Time-Depth Recorder (TDR)) and long-term (i.e. planned for one year) deployments (ARGOS platforms, TDR), as well as juvenile emperor penguins for long-term deployments (ARGOS platforms) in the Weddell Sea area where they had not yet been studied. …”
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Cadmium and phosphate in coastal Antarctic seawater: implications for Southern Ocean nutrient cycling by Hendry, K, Rickaby, R, de Hoog, J, Weston, K, Rehkämper, M

“…This implies that the Cd/PO₄³⁻ ratio of the Southern Ocean will vary on glacial-interglacial timescales as the proportion of deep water originating on the continental shelves of the Weddell Sea is reduced during glaciations because the ice shelf is pinned at the edge of the continental shelf. …”

Cadmium and phosphate in coastal Antarctic seawater: Implications for Southern Ocean nutrient cycling by Hendry, K, Rickaby, R, de Hoog, J, Weston, K, Rehkamper, M

“…This implies that the Cd/PO43- ratio of the Southern Ocean will vary on glacial-interglacial timescales as the proportion of deep water originating on the continental shelves of the Weddell Sea is reduced during glaciations because the ice shelf is pinned at the edge of the continental shelf. …”

Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica by Robert Mulvaney, Julius Rix, Scott Polfrey, Mackenzie Grieman, Carlos Martìn, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Isobel Rowell, Rebecca Tuckwell, Eric Wolff

“…To understand the long-term climate and glaciological evolution of the ice sheet in the region bordering the Weddell Sea, the British Antarctic Survey has undertaken a series of successful ice core projects drilling to bedrock on Berkner Island, James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory. …”
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Explicit representation and parametrised impacts of under ice shelf seas in the <i>z</i>^∗ coordinate ocean model NEMO 3.6 by P. Mathiot, P. Mathiot, A. Jenkins, C. Harris, G. Madec

“…<br><br> Compared with the current prescription of ice shelf melting (i.e. at the surface), inclusion of open sub-ice-shelf cavities leads to a decrease in sea ice thickness along the coast, a weakening of the ocean stratification on the shelf, a decrease in salinity of high-salinity shelf water on the Ross and Weddell sea shelves and an increase in the strength of the gyres that circulate within the over-deepened basins on the West Antarctic continental shelf. …”
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