Excess helium and neon in the southeast Pacific: Tracers for glacial meltwater

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Hohmann, R ^a   Schlosser, P ^a   Jacobs, S ^a   Ludin, A ^a   Weppernig, R ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED GAS; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MELTWATER; NEON; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; TRACER;

(SOUTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037113499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000378     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Arctowski, H., and J. Thoulet, Voyage du S.Y. Belgica, 1897-1899. Oceanography: Rapports Scientifiques Ser., 23 pp., J.E. Buschmann, Anvers, Belgium, 1901.
2. Bayer, R., and P. Schlosser, Tritium profiles in the Weddell Sea. Mar. Chem., 35, 123-136, 1991.
3. Benson, B. B., and D. Krause, Isotopic fractionation of helium during solution: A probe for the liquid state, J. Solution Chem., 9, 895-909, 1980.
4. Bieri, R. H., Dissolved noble gases in marine water, Earth Planet, Sci. Lett., 10, 329-333, 1971.
5. 3He, Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isot., 27, 515-522, 1976.
6. Craig, H., and J. E. Lupton, Helium-3 and mantle volatiles in the ocean and the oceanic crust, in The Sea, vol. 7, Oceanic Lithosphere, edited by E. D. Goldman, pp. 291-428, John Wiley, New York, 1981.
7. Craig, H., and R. F. Weiss, Dissolved gas saturation anomalies and excess helium in the ocean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 10, 289-296, 1971.
8. Deacon, G. E. R., The hydrology of the Southern Ocean, Discovery Rep., 15, 1-24, 1937.
9. Emery, W. J., C. W. Fowler, and J. A. Maslanik, Satellite-derived maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice motion: 1988 to 1994, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24(8), 897-900, 1997.
10. Foldvik, A., T. Gammelsrød, and T. Torresen, Circulation and water masses on the southern Weddell Sea shelf, in Oceanology of the Antarctic Continental Shelf, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 43, edited by S. S. Jacobs, pp. 5-20, AGU, Washington, D. C., 1985.
11. Giulivi, C. F., and S. S. Jacobs, Oceanographic data in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas: NB Palmer Cruise 9402, February-March 1994, LDEO Tech. Rep. 97-3, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, 1997.
12. Glueckauf, E., A micro-analysis of the helium and neon content of air, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A, 185, 98-119, 1946.
13. Gow, A. J., and T. Williamson, Gas inclusions in the Antarctic Ice Sheet and their glaciological significance, J. Geophys. Res., 80(36), 5101-5108, 1975.
14. Grotov, A. S., D. A. Nachaev, G. G. Panteleev, and M. I. Yaremchuk, Large-scale circulation in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas as a variational inverse of climatological data, J. Geophys Res., 103(C6), 13,011-13,022, 1998.
15. Hellmer, H. H., S. S. Jacobs, and A. Jenkins, Oceanic erosion of a floating Antarctic glacier in the Amundsen Sea, in Ocean, Ice, and Atmosphere: Interactions at the Antarctic Continental Margin, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 75, edited by S. S. Jacobs and R. F. Weiss, pp. 83-99, AGU, Washington, D.C., 1998.
16. Hofmann, E., and J. Klinck, Hydrography and circulation of the Antarctic continental shelf: 150°E to the Greenwich meridian, in The Sea, vol. 35, edited by A. R. Robinson and K. H. Brink, pp. 997-1042, John Wiley, New York, 1998.
17. Hofmann, E. E., J. M. Klinck, C. M. Lascara, and D. A. Smith, Water mass distribution and circulation west of the Antarctic Peninsula and including Bransfield Strait, in Foundations for Ecological Research West of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 70, edited by R. M. Ross, E. E. Hofmann, and L. B. Quetin, pp. 61-80, AGU, Washington, D. C., 1996.
18. Jacobs, S. S., H. H. Heltmer, S. S. Doake, A. Jenkins, and R. M. Frolich, Melting of ice shelves and the mass balance of Antarctica, J. Glaciol., 38, 375-387, 1992.
19. Jacobs, S. S., H. H. Hellmer, and A. Jenkins, Antarctic ice sheet melting in the southeast Pacific, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23(9), 957-960, 1996.
20. Jenkins, A., D. G. Vaughan, S. S. Jacobs, H. H. Hellmer, and J. R. Keys, Glaciological and oceanographic evidence of high melt rates beneath the Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, J. Glaciol., 43, 114-121, 1997.
21. Jenne, R. L., H. L. Crutcher, H. van Loon, and J. J. Taljaard, Climate of the Upper Air: Southern Hemisphere, vol. 3, Vector Mean Geostrophic Winds, Isogon and Isotach Analysis, Natl. Cent. for Atmos. Res., Boulder, Colo., 1971.
22. Ludin, A., R. Weppernig, G. Bönisch, and P. Schlosser, Mass spectrometric measurement of helium isotopes and tritium in water samples, LDEO Tech. Rep. 98-6, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, 1998.
23. Lupton, J., Terrestrial inert gases: Isotope tracer studies and primordial components in the mantle, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 11, 371-414, 1983.
24. Lupton, J., Hydrothermal helium plumes in the Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 10(C8), 15,853-15,868, 1998.
25. 3He in oceanic basalts: Evidence for terrestrial primordial helium, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 26, 125-132, 1975.
26. Mamyrin, B. A., and I. N. Tolstikhin, Developments in Geochemistry, vol. 3, Helium Isotopes in Nature, edited by W. Fyfe, 273 pp., Elsevier Sci., New York, 1984.
27. Martinierie, P., D. Raynaud, D. M. Etheridge, J.-M. Barnol, and D. Mazaudier, Physical and climatic parameters which influence the air content in polar ice, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 112, 1-13, 1992.
28. Mensch, M., R. Bayer, J. L. Bullister, P. Schlosser, and R. F. Weiss, The distribution of Tritium and CFCs in the Weddell Sea during the mid-1980s, Prog. Oceanogr., 38, 377-415, 1996.
29. Mensch, M., A. Simon, and R. Bayer, Tritium and CFC input functions for the Weddell Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C8), 15,923-15,937, 1998.
30. Ozima, M., and F. A. Podosek, Noble Gas Geochemistry, 367 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1983.
31. Potter, J. R., and J. G. Paren, Interaction between ice shelf and ocean in George VI Sound, Antarctica, in Oceanology of the Antarctic Continental Shelf, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 43, edited by S. S. Jacobs, pp. 35-58, AGU, Washington, D. C., 1985.
32. Raynaud, D., and I. M. Whillans, Air content of the Byrd core and past changes in the West Antarctic ice sheet, Ann. Glaciol., 3, 269-273, 1982.
33. Rignot, E., Fast recession of a west Antarctic glacier, Science, 281, 549-551, 1998.
34. Roether, W., R. Well, and A. Putzka, and C. Rüth, Component separation of oceanic helium, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C12), 27,931-27,946, 1998.
35. Schlosser, P., Helium: A new tracer in Antarctic oceanography, Nature, 321, 233-235, 1986.
36. Schlosser, P., R. Bayer, A. Foldvik, T. Gammelsrød, G. Rohardt, and O. K. Münnich, Oxygen 18 and Helium as tracers of ice shelf water and water/ ice interaction in the Weddell Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 95(C3), 3253-3263, 1990.
37. Schlosser, P., J. L. Bullister, and R. Bayer, Studies of deep water formation and circulation in the Weddell Sea using natural and anthropogenic tracers, Mar. Chem., 35, 97-122, 1991.
38. Schweitzer, P. N., B. Babbitt, and G. Eaton, Monthly average polar sea ice concentration, U. S. Geol. Surv. Digital Ser. DDS-27, U.S. Geol. Surv., Reston, Va., 1995.
39. Thorpe, S. A., The role of bubbles produced by breaking waves in super-saturating the near surface ocean mixing layer with oxygen, Ann. Geophys., 2, 53-56, 1984.
40. Torgersen, T., W. B. Clarke, and W. J. Jenkins, The tritium/helium-3 method in hydrology, in Isotope Hydrology 1978, pp. 917-930, Intl. At. Energy Agency, Vienna, 1979.
41. Van Loon, H., J. J. Taljaard, R. L. Jenne, and H. L. Crutcher, Climate of the Upper Air: Southern Hemisphere, vol. 2, Zonal Geostrophic Winds, Natl. Cent. for Atmos. Res., Boulder, Colo., 1971.
42. Vaughan, D. G., A. M. Smith, H. F. J. Corr, A. Jenkins, C. R. Bentley, M. D. Stenoien, S. S. Jacobs, T. B. Kellogg, E. Rignot, and B. K. Lucchitta, A review of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: Hypotheses of instability versus observations of change, in The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behaviour and Environment, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 77, edited by R. B. Alley and R. A. Bindschadler, pp. 237-256, AGU, Washington, D. C., 2001.
43. Wanninkhof, R., Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 97(C5), 7373-7382, 1992.
44. Weiss, R. F., Solubility of helium and neon in water and seawater, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 16, 235-241, 1971.
45. Weppernig, R., P. Schlosser, S. Khatiwala, and R. G. Fairbanks, Isotope data from the Ice Station Weddell: Implications for deep water formation in the Weddell Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 101(C10), 25,723-25,739, 1996.
46. Whitworth, T., III, W. D. Nowlin, Jr., and S. J. Worley, The net transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through Drake Passage, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 960-971, 1982.
47. Whitworth, T., III, A. H. Orsi, S. J. Kim, W. D. Nowlin, and R. A. Locarnini, Water masses and mixing near the Antarctic Slope Front, in Ocean. Ice, and Atmosphere: Interactions at the Antarctic Continental Margin, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 75, edited by S. S. Jacobs and R. F. Weiss, pp. 1-27, AGU, Washington, D. C., 1998.