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Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags

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Date
24/05/2018
Author
Mallett, Helen K. W.
Boehme, Lars
Fedak, Mike
Heywood, Karen J.
Stevens, David P.
Roquet, Fabien
Funder
NERC
Grant ID
NE/J005649/1
Keywords
Pine Island Glacier
Ice-melt
Circumpolar Deep Water
Amundsen Sea
GC Oceanography
GE Environmental Sciences
NDAS
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In the Amundsen Sea, warm saline Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) crosses the continental shelf toward the vulnerable West Antarctic ice shelves, contributing to their basal melting. Due to lack of observations, little is known about the spatial and temporal variability of CDW, particularly seasonally. A new dataset of 6704 seal‐tag temperature and salinity profiles in the easternmost trough between February and December 2014 reveals a CDW layer on average 49 db thicker in late winter (August to October) than in late summer (February to April), the reverse seasonality of that seen at moorings in the western trough. This layer contains more heat in winter, but on the 27.76 kg/m3 density surface CDW is 0.32° C warmer in summer than winter, across the northeastern Amundsen sea, which may indicate wintertime shoaling offshelf changes CDW properties onshelf. In Pine Island Bay these seasonal changes on density surfaces are reduced, likely by gyre circulation.
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Mallett , H K W , Boehme , L , Fedak , M , Heywood , K J , Stevens , D P & Roquet , F 2018 , ' Variation in the distribution and properties of Circumpolar Deep Water in the eastern Amundsen Sea, on seasonal timescales, using seal-borne tags ' , Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077430
Publication
Geophysical Research Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077430
ISSN
1944-8007
Type
Journal article
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©2018. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The work was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) iSTAR Programme through grants NE/J005703/1 (Karen Heywood and David Stevens) and NE/JOO5649/1 (Mike Fedak) and by the NERC EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership through grant NE/L002582/1 (Helen Mallett). Lars Boehme was supported by the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions.
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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL077430
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13535

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