Widespread freshening in the Seasonal Ice Zone near 140°E off the Adélie Land Coast, Antarctica, from 1994 to 2012

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 6046-6063

  Aoki, S ^a,b   Kitade, Y ^c   Shimada, K ^c   Ohshima, K I ^a   Tamura, T ^b,d,e   Bajish, C C ^a   Moteki, M ^c   Rintoul, S R ^b,f,g,h  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^h Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Bottom Water; freshening; freshwater flux; global hydrological cycle; Winter Water

Indexed keywords

OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; FRESHENING; FRESHWATER FLUXES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; SEASONAL ICE ZONES; SUBSEQUENT REDUCTION;

ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; HYDROGRAPHY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

ADELIE COAST; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84890237928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009009     Document Type: Article

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