Ocean, Ice, and Atmosphere: Interactions at the Antarctic Continental Margin

Title page
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Copyright
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Contents
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Preface
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INTRODUCTION......Page 10
WATER MASSES OF THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN......Page 12
THE SLOPE FRONT, COASTAL CURRENT,AND SLOPE CURRENT......Page 18
NEUTRAL DENSITY IN ̿-S SPACE......Page 19
REGIONAL EXAMPLES OF THE STRATIFICATION AT THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN......Page 20
WATER MASSES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SHELF AND SLOPE......Page 27
SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION......Page 32
REFERENCES......Page 34
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 37
2. OBSERVATIONS......Page 38
3. MODELLING......Page 43
4. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION......Page 53
REFERENCES......Page 54
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 58
2. MODEL DESCRIPTIONS......Page 59
3. LARGE SCALE IMPACTS OF THE KLS SYSTEM......Page 63
4. COUPLED ATMOSPHERIC-OCEAN-ICE EXPERIMENTS......Page 67
5. CONCLUSIONS......Page 70
REFERENCES......Page 71
2. DATA AND METHODS......Page 73
4. THERMOHALINE DISTRIBUTIONS......Page 75
5. DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY......Page 83
REFERENCES......Page 86
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 88
2. OBSERVATIONS......Page 89
3. Thermohaline Circulation Model......Page 95
4. Summary......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 103
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 105
3. MULTI-YEAR SSM/I SURVEY OF THE ROSSSEA POLYNYA......Page 108
4. A CASE STUDY......Page 112
5. KATABATIC SURGE EVENTS AND THEIR INTERANNUAL VARIATION......Page 123
6. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION......Page 131
REFERENCES......Page 135
INTRODUCTION......Page 138
GENERAL CIRCULATION......Page 139
SALINITY AND TEMPERATURE NEAR THE ROSS ICE SHELF......Page 141
MODIFIED CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER VARIABILITY......Page 145
SEA ICE EXTENT......Page 146
WIND......Page 147
AIR TEMPERATURE......Page 148
SALINITY OF THE HIGH SALINITY SHELF WATER......Page 149
CONCLUSIONS......Page 150
REFERENCES......Page 151
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 154
2. DATA......Page 155
3. PROPERTY DISTRIBUTIONS AT 140°E......Page 156
4. DISTRIBUTION OF BOTTOM WATER PROPERTIES......Page 160
5. DISCUSSION......Page 165
6. SUMMARY......Page 171
REFERENCES
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1. INTRODUCTION......Page 175
4. WATER MASSES......Page 177
5.LARGESCALECIRCULATION
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6. OCEAN AND ICE SHELF INTERACTION......Page 181
7. BOTTOM WATERS......Page 184
REFERENCES......Page 188
INTRODUCTION......Page 190
WATER COLUMN PROCESSES......Page 191
BOUNDARY PROCESSES......Page 198
SUMMARY......Page 200
REFERENCES......Page 201
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 204
2. WATER MASSES OF THE EASTERN WEDDELL SEA......Page 206
3. TRANSPORT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ANTARCTIC SLOPE FRONT......Page 209
4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 211
REFERENCES......Page 213
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 216
2. WEDDELL GYRE CIRCULATION......Page 217
4. WESTERN WEDDELL SEATHERMOHALINE STRATIFICATION......Page 219
5. DISCUSSION......Page 232
6. CONCLUSIONS......Page 238
REFERENCES......Page 239
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 242
2. SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES......Page 243
3. HYDROGRAPHIC BACKGROUND......Page 246
4. OBSERVATIONS......Page 247
5. DISCUSSION......Page 248
REFERENCES......Page 255
INTRODUCTION......Page 258
THEORY OF THE ICE PLATELET MODEL......Page 260
APPLICATION OF THE MODEL TO AN IDEALIZED ICE PLATELET-OCEAN SYSTEM......Page 262
APPLICATION OF THE MODEL TO AREAS CLOSE TO THE FILCHNER-RONNE ICE SHELF......Page 263
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 265
REFERENCES......Page 266
INTRODUCTION......Page 268
DATA......Page 271
DISCUSSION......Page 277
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 283
REFERENCES......Page 284
INTRODUCTION......Page 286
ICE-OCEAN BOUNDARY PROCESSES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE WATER COLUMN......Page 288
TIDAL MODELS......Page 289
THERMOHALINE MODELS......Page 290
SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK......Page 296
REFERENCES......Page 299
INTRODUCTION......Page 301
MODELS OF SUB-ICE SHELF CIRCULATION......Page 302
OBSERVATIONS BENEATH RONNEICE SHELF......Page 304
COMBINING THE DATASETS......Page 313
NET BASAL MELT RATE......Page 314
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 316
REFERENCES......Page 317
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 319
2. RADIO ECHO SOUNDING MEASUREMENTS......Page 321
3. OCEAN MODELING......Page 325
4. ICE FLOW MODELING......Page 328
5. REMOTE SENSING......Page 330
6. GREEN ICEBERG OBSERVATION......Page 333
7. CONCLUSION......Page 335
REFERENCES......Page 336
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 340
2. MODELING APPROACH......Page 341
3. VALIDATION DATA......Page 344
4. MODEL RESULTS......Page 347
5. TIDAL ENERGY BALANCE......Page 357
6. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF MODEL RESULTS......Page 358
7. CONCLUSIONS......Page 363
Appendix A: Review of Large Discrepancies Between the Model Elevations and the Measurements......Page 364
Appendix B: Review of Large Discrepancies Between the Model Velocity Ellipse Major Axes and the Measurements......Page 365
REFERENCES......Page 366
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 369
2. BATHYMETRIC DATABASE......Page 370
3. SEAFLOOR MODELING......Page 371
4. SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES......Page 374
5. PRINTED AND DIGITAL BATHYMETRY PRODUCTS......Page 376
REFERENCES......Page 377