Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope

Heywood, Karen J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-0026, Schmidtko, Sunke, Heuzé, Céline, Kaiser, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1553-4043, Jickells, Timothy D., Queste, Bastien Y., Stevens, David P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-4405, Wadley, Martin, Thompson, Andrew F., Fielding, Sophie, Guihen, Damien, Creed, Elizabeth, Ridley, Jeff K., Smith, Walker and Lee, Craig M. (2014) Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 372 (2019). ISSN 1364-503X

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Abstract

The Antarctic continental shelves and slopes occupy relatively small areas, but, nevertheless, are important for global climate, biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem functioning. Processes of water mass transformation through sea ice formation/melting and ocean-atmosphere interaction are key to the formation of deep and bottom waters as well as determining the heat flux beneath ice shelves. Climate models, however, struggle to capture these physical processes and are unable to reproduce water mass properties of the region. Dynamics at the continental slope are key for correctly modelling climate, yet their small spatial scale presents challenges both for ocean modelling and for observational studies. Cross-slope exchange processes are also vital for the flux of nutrients such as iron from the continental shelf into the mixed layer of the Southern Ocean. An © 2014 The Authors.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	antarctic continental shelf,antarctic slope front,climate model,iron fertilization,ocean glider,water mass,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics (former - to 2024) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA Faculty of Science
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluid and Solid Mechanics (former - to 2024) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluids & Structures Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Numerical Simulation, Statistics & Data Science
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2014 20:54
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 01:23
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48585
DOI:	10.1098/rsta.2013.0047

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