The role of tides in bottom water export from the western Ross Sea [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Approximately 25% of Antarctic Bottom Water has its origin as dense water exiting the western Ross Sea, but little is known about what controls the release of dense water plumes from the Drygalski Trough.
Melissa M. Bowen +6 more
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Evidence for large-scale climate forcing of dense shelf water variability in the Ross Sea [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAntarctic Bottom Water (AABW), which supplies the lower limb of the thermohaline circulation, originates from dense shelf water (DSW) forming in Antarctic polynyas.
Zhaoru Zhang +11 more
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Rebound of shelf water salinity in the Ross Sea [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Ross Sea Bottom Water, a major source of Antarctic Bottom Water, has experienced significant freshening in recent decades. Here the authors use 23 years of summer measurements to document temporal variability in the salinity of the Ross Sea High Salinity
Pasquale Castagno +7 more
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Springtime winds drive Ross Sea ice variability and change in the following autumn [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Antarctic sea ice extent continues to increase, with autumn sea ice advances in the western Ross Sea particularly anomalous. Here, based on analysis of independent datasets, the authors show that springtime zonal winds in the high latitude South Pacific ...
Marika M. Holland +3 more
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Seasonal variations in Circumpolar Deep Water intrusions into the Ross Sea continental shelf
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Intrusions of the warm and nutrient-rich Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) across the Ross Sea shelf break play an important role in providing heat for ice shelf basal melting and setting the physical environment for biochemical processes.
Yufei Wang +5 more
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Phytoplankton blooms during austral summer in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: Driving factors and trophic implications. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 During the austral summer of 2014, an oceanographic cruise was conducted in the Ross Sea in the framework of the RoME (Ross Sea Mesoscale Experiment) Project.
Olga Mangoni +8 more
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Bacterioplankton Diversity and Distribution in Relation to Phytoplankton Community Structure in the Ross Sea Surface Waters. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2022 Primary productivity in the Ross Sea region is characterized by intense phytoplankton blooms whose temporal and spatial distribution are driven by changes in environmental conditions as well as interactions with the bacterioplankton community.
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Decadal trends in air‐sea CO2 exchange in the Ross Sea (Antarctica) [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 Highly productive Antarctic shelf systems, like the Ross Sea, play important roles in regional carbon budgets, but the drivers of local variations are poorly quantified.
Alessandro Tagliabue, Kevin R. Arrigo
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Physical and biological properties of early winter Antarctic sea ice in the Ross Sea
Annals of Glaciology, 2020 This work presents the results of physical and biological investigations at 27 biogeochemical stations of early winter sea ice in the Ross Sea during the 2017 PIPERS cruise. Only two similar cruises occurred in the past, in 1995 and 1998.
Jean-Louis Tison +16 more
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Climatology and decadal variability of the Ross Sea shelf waters
Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2011 The World Ocean Database 2001 data located in the Ross Sea (named WOD01 and containing data in this region since 1928) are merged with recent data collected by the Italian expeditions (CLIMA dataset) in the period November 1994-February 2004 in the same ...
A. Russo +5 more
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