SO-WISE
We are constructing observationally-constrained estimates of the state of the Weddell Gyre, including associated ice shelves and sea ice Introduction In the 25 years between 1992 and 2017, ocean melting …
Ocean circulation
Modelling Movement of Antarctic Krill
The MMAK project is using state-of-the-art ocean-sea ice models to improve our understanding of processes that influence the distribution of krill in the South Orkney Islands region.
National Capability for Global Challenges
Polar Expertise – Supporting Development
Oceanographic models for the Scotia Sea
Development of regional models to examine the detailed oceanography of island shelves and surrounding regions.
Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO)
Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO) is a collaboration between BAS, the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The project aims to investigate the flow of …
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Understanding Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) and its affect on global ocean circulation.
Filchner Ice Shelf System, Antarctica
Understanding the contribution that polar ice sheets make to global sea-level rise is recognised internationally as urgent. The mission of this five-year project is to capture new observations and data …
Interannual variability of the outflow of Weddell Sea bottom water
24 February, 2020
Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]
1 September, 2019
Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean
28 August, 2019
Southern Ocean carbon-wind stress feedback
1 October, 2018
Inferences of ocean currents from seismic streamer position data
1 September, 2017
Glacial meltwater identification in the Amundsen Sea
20 April, 2017
Oceanography and sea ice in the Southern Ocean
1 March, 2017
Wind-driven export of Weddell Sea slope water
1 October, 2016
The thermodynamic balance of the Weddell Gyre
1 January, 2016
Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period
1 December, 2015
Southern Ocean
1 July, 2015
Recent trends in the Southern Ocean eddy field
1 January, 2015
Boundary mixing in Orkney Passage outflow
1 December, 2014
Sustaining observations in the polar oceans
28 September, 2014
Environmental setting
1 August, 2014
Assessing status and change in Southern Ocean ecosystems
1 August, 2014
Wave breaking in dense plumes
1 February, 2014
Climate science: A resolution of the Antarctic paradox
23 January, 2014
Deep boundary current disintegration in Drake Passage
16 January, 2014
Ice-Ocean Interactions in North West Greenland
1 January, 2014
Vertical Eddy Fluxes in the Southern Ocean
1 May, 2013
Antarctica: global science from a frozen continent
4 April, 2013
Oceanography: Replenishing the abyss
24 February, 2013
Wintertime water mass modification near an Antarctic ice front
1 February, 2013
Ocean Floor Observation System (OFOS)
1 January, 2013
Oceanographic conditions beneath Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica
9 February, 2012
Fronts and habitat zones in the Scotia Sea
1 January, 2012
Spatial and Temporal Operation of the Scotia Sea Ecosystem
1 January, 2012
Implementing a Southern Ocean Observing System
1 January, 2012
The Southern Ocean Observing System
1 January, 2012
Ice-shelf basal channels in a coupled ice/ocean model
1 January, 2012
The Marine System of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
1 January, 2012
The Southern Ocean Observing System
1 January, 2012
The formation of nonzonal jets over sloped topography
1 January, 2012
Low frequency variability of Southern Ocean jets
1 September, 2011
Observed circulation in the Solomon Sea from SADCP data
1 January, 2011
Weather and climate
1 January, 2011
Oscillating dense plumes
1 January, 2011
Palaeoclimate Southern westerlies and CO2
1 January, 2010
Biologging in the global ocean observing system
1 January, 2010
Climate change: warm bath for an ice sheet
1 January, 2010
Faunal evidence for a late quaternary trans-Antarctic Seaway
1 January, 2010
Freshwater transport at Fimbulisen, Antarctica
1 January, 2009
Numerical simulation of the Filchner overflow
1 January, 2009
Validation of three global ocean models in the Weddell Sea
1 January, 2009
Freshwater fluxes east of Greenland
1 January, 2008
The heat is on
1 January, 2008
Saturated sink
1 January, 2008
Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill
1 January, 2008
A continuum model of melt pond evolution on Arctic sea ice
1 January, 2007
West Antarctic links to sea level estimation
1 January, 2007
Rapid climate change and the role of ocean circulation
1 January, 2007
Mass balance of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic
1 January, 2007
East Antarctic continental margin, oceanography of
1 January, 2007
Drake Passage, opening of
1 January, 2007
Melting of floating ice and sea level rise
1 January, 2007
Tidal vertical mixing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 2006
Antarctica: closer than you think
1 January, 2006
The future of El Niño?
1 January, 2006
Antarctic and tropical interactions
1 January, 2005
Ocean processes below Fimbulisen – modeling results
1 January, 2005
Ronne inflow experiment – fieldwork
1 January, 2004
Ocean processes and seasonal flow along Ronne Ice Front
1 January, 2004
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Antarctica
1 January, 2004
Advection, krill, and Antarctic marine ecosystems
1 January, 2004
From Port Stanley, 4th April, 2003
1 January, 2003
The Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment data collection
1 January, 2003
Modelling the ocean circulation beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
1 January, 2003
Long-term variation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
1 January, 2003
Polar marine ecosystems: major threats and future change
1 January, 2003
Freshwater fluxes through the western Fram Strait
1 April, 2001
Discoloured water, Weddell Sea, 5 February 1999
1 January, 2000
Krill transport in the Scotia Sea and environs
1 January, 1998
Ocean tides under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 1996
Current flow in the north-west Weddell Sea
1 March, 1995
Is this little PIG in hot water
1 January, 1994
Ocean circulation beneath Ronne Ice Shelf
1 January, 1994
Temperature and salinity beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 December, 1993
A one-dimensional model of ice shelf-ocean interaction
1 November, 1991
Ocean circulation beneath the Ronne ice shelf
1 November, 1991
Ice-ocean interaction on Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1 January, 1991
Gravity currents beneath ice shelves
1 January, 1991
Periodic motions in Weddell Sea pack ice
1 January, 1989
The tidal spectrum underneath Antarctic ice shelves
15 November, 1986
Tidal behaviour under an Antarctic ice shelf
1 January, 1985
Underwater tsunamis created by glacier calving
23 November, 2022
Scientists on a research vessel in Antarctica watched the front of a glacier disintegrate and their measurements ‘went off the scale’. As well as witnessing disruptions on the ocean surface, …
New map of Southern Ocean floor
10 June, 2022
A new map of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica provides the most accurate representation of this vast area to date. An international team of scientists, including several …
Climate extremes drive changes in Antarctic Bottom Water
17 November, 2020
British Antarctic Survey contributes to new international study that finds a surprising increase in the amount of dense water sinking near Antarctica, following 50 years of decline. Dense water formed …
Boaty McBoatface sheds light on warming ocean abyss
18 June, 2019
The debut mission involving the autonomous submarine Autosub Long Range – affectionately known as Boaty McBoatface – has for the first time shed light on a key process linking increasing …
Solar heat drives rapid melting of Antarctic Ice Shelf
29 April, 2019
A section of the world’s largest ice shelf in Antarctica – around the size of Spain – is melting 10 times faster than average and warm ocean currents beneath it …
Melt-rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures
13 August, 2018
Melting of ice shelves in West Antarctica speeds up and slows down in response to changes in deep ocean temperature, and is far more variable than previously thought, according to …
Boaty McBoatface returns home with unprecedented data
28 June, 2017
Researchers have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth – known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) – during the first voyage of the yellow …
The first dive of Boaty McBoatface
7 April, 2017
The unmanned submersible Boaty McBoatface was deployed in the Antarctic for the first time.
Scientists explain how meltwater reaches ocean depths
30 January, 2017
An international team of researchers has discovered why fresh water, melted from Antarctic ice sheets, is often detected below the surface of the ocean, rather than rising to the top …
Wind-blown Antarctic sea ice helps drive ocean circulation
27 June, 2016
Antarctic sea ice is constantly on the move as powerful winds blow it away from the coast and out toward the open ocean. A new study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience (Monday 27 June) shows how that ice migration may be more important for the global ocean circulation than anyone realized.
NEWS STORY: Columns widespread in Southern Ocean
5 March, 2015
Oceanographers discover ‘Taylor columns’ are widespread in Southern Ocean according to new research published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research Lead author Professor Mike Meredith, a Senior Oceanographer at …
NEWS STORY: Glacier project on stamps
25 November, 2014
Stamp of approval for iSTAR The iSTAR programme, which is looking at the stability of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, is featured in a new set of British Antarctic Territory …
NEWS STORY: Southern Ocean dynamics
2 June, 2014
The Southern Ocean: new insights into circulation, carbon and climate A special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has been published today (Monday 2 June) which …
NEWS STORY: Funding announced for new ship
25 April, 2014
New polar research ship for UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP announced this week (Friday 25 April 2014) that the Government has earmarked more than …
NEWS STORY: Crucial conditions for phytoplankton
16 March, 2014
Winter conditions crucial for phytoplankton growth in Southern Ocean An international team of researchers, including the British Antarctic Survey, has found new evidence that winter conditions in the Southern Ocean …
NEWS STORY: Submerged mountains aid ocean mixing
18 September, 2013
Undersea mountains provide crucial piece in climate prediction puzzle A mystery in the ocean near Antarctica has been solved by researchers who have long puzzled over how deep and mid-depth …
PRESS RELEASE: Surveying below the ice
17 March, 2009
Robot submarine searches for signs of melting under Antarctic Ice Shelf A team of British and American scientists has successfully deployed an autonomous robot submarine on six missions beneath an …