Antarctic bottom water production from the Vincennes Bay Polynya, East Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3528-3534

  Kitade, Yujiro ^a   Shimada, Keishi ^a   Tamura, Takeshi ^b,c   Williams, Guy D ^c   Aoki, Shigeru ^d   Fukamachi, Yasushi ^d   Roquet, Fabien ^e   Hindell, Mark ^f   Ushio, Shuki ^b   Ohshima, Kay I ^d  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Bottom Water; Australian Antarctic Basin; dense shelf water; polynya; sea ice production

Indexed keywords

MOORING;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; AUSTRALIAN-ANTARCTIC BASINS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSE SHELF WATER; EAST ANTARCTICA; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; POLYNYA;

SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; MOORING SYSTEM; POLYNYA; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; VINCENNES BAY;

EID: 84901384104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059971     Document Type: Article

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