Antarctic Bottom Water production by intense sea-ice formation in the Cape Darnley polynya

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-240

  Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Fukamachi, Yasushi ^a   Williams, Guy D ^b   Nihashi, Sohey ^c   Roquet, Fabien ^d   Kitade, Yujiro ^e   Tamura, Takeshi ^f   Hirano, Daisuke ^e   Herraiz Borreguero, Laura ^b   Field, Iain ^g   Hindell, Mark ^h   Aoki, Shigeru ^a   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c TOMAKOMAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^g MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; GLOBAL OCEAN; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE SHELF; MOORING SYSTEM; PINNIPED; SEA ICE; TRANSFORMATION; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTICA;

MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 84874589811     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1738     Document Type: Article

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