Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean [PDF]
The carbonate chemistry of the surface ocean is rapidly changing with ocean acidification, a result of human activities. In the upper layers of the Southern Ocean, aragonite—a metastable form of calcium carbonate with rapid dissolution kinetics—may ...
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Phylogeography of the crown-of-thorns starfish in the Indian Ocean [PDF]
Background: Understanding the limits and population dynamics of closely related sibling species in the marine realm is particularly relevant in organisms that require management.
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Circulation, retention, and mixing of waters within the Weddell-Scotia Confluence, Southern Ocean:The role of stratified Taylor columns [PDF]
The waters of the Weddell-Scotia Confluence (WSC) lie above the rugged topography of the South Scotia Ridge in the Southern Ocean. Meridional exchanges across the WSC transfer water and tracers between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) to the north
Abrahamsen, E. Povl+7 more
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The discovery of new deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the Southern ocean and implications for biogeography [PDF]
Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Gala´pagos Rift in 1977, numerous vent sites and endemic faunal assemblages have been found along mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins at low to mid latitudes.
Alker, Belinda+33 more
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Combined impact of shifts in Southern Ocean westerlies and Antarctic sea ice during LGM on atmospheric CO2 [PDF]
A significant influence of changes in the westerly winds over the Southern Ocean was proposed as a mechanism to explain a large portion of the glacial atmospheric pCO2 drawdown (Toggweiler et al., 2006).
Knorr, Gregor+4 more
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The response of Southern Ocean eddies to increased midlatitude westerlies: a non-eddy resolving model study [PDF]
The midlatitude westerlies of the southern hemisphere have intensified since the 1970s. Non-eddy resolving general circulation models respond to such wind intensification with steeper isopycnals, a faster Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), and a ...
Hofmann, M., Morales Maqueda, M. A.
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Geo-Engineering in the Southern Ocean [PDF]
Ocean Dumping A German research vessel, the Polarstern, is on a 70 day exercise of dumping 20 tonnes of ferrous sulphate (iron sulphate, FeSO4) in the Southern Ocean at a latitude of 46° south.
Paull, John
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The causes of full ocean depth interannual variability in Drake Passage [PDF]
In recent years a number of large scale modes of Southern Hemisphere climate variability have been observed, most notably the Southern Annular Mode (SAM, e.g. Thompson and Solomon, 2002), the Pacific South American modes (PSA, e.g.
Heywood, KJ+4 more
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Southern Ocean Sector Centennial Climate Variability and Recent Decadal Trends [PDF]
Evidence is presented for the notion that some contribution to the recent decadal trends observed in the Southern Hemisphere, including the lack of a strong Southern Ocean surface warming, may have originated from longer-term internal centennial ...
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Ocean acidification in the aftermath of the Marinoan glaciation [PDF]
Boron isotope patterns preserved in cap carbonates deposited in the aftermath of the younger Cryogenian (Marinoan, ca. 635 Ma) glaciation confirm a temporary ocean acidification event on the continental margin of the southern Congo craton, Namibia.
Fallick, Anthony E.+3 more
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