Freshening drives contraction of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Australian Antarctic Basin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1657-1664

  Van Wijk, Esmee M ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Bottom Water; Australian Antarctic Basin; density changes; freshening; oxygen; water mass change

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; AUSTRALIAN-ANTARCTIC BASINS; DENSITY CHANGE; FRESHENING; WATER MASS;

OXYGEN;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; DENSITY FRONT; OXYGEN; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SALINITY; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84895855021     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058921     Document Type: Article

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