Ocean circulation

Southern Ocean carbon-wind stress feedback

1 October, 2018

Implementation of a geometrically informed and energetically constrained mesoscale eddy parameterization in an ocean circulation model

30 August, 2018

Mechanisms of dissolved and labile particulate iron supply to shelf waters and phytoplankton blooms off South Georgia, Southern Ocean

22 August, 2018

Oceanic fronts control the distribution of dissolved barium in the Southern Ocean

20 August, 2018

West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea driven by decadal oceanic variability

13 August, 2018

UK Global Ocean GO6 and GO7: a traceable hierarchy of model resolutions

10 August, 2018

A 2000-year record of ocean influence on Jakobshavn Isbræ calving activity, based on marine sediment cores

7 August, 2018

Ocean access beneath the southwest tributary of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

1 July, 2018

A new bathymetry for the southeastern Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf: implications for modern oceanographic processes and glacial history

8 June, 2018

The marine system of the West Antarctic Peninsula: status and strategy for progress

1 June, 2018

Anatomy of a glacial meltwater discharge event in an Antarctic Cove

1 June, 2018

Shelf-ocean exchange and hydrography west of the Antarctic Peninsula: A review

1 June, 2018

A “shallow bathtub ring” of local sedimentary iron input maintains the Palmer Deep biological hotspot on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf

1 June, 2018

Variability of the Ross Gyre, Southern Ocean: drivers and responses revealed by satellite altimetry

1 June, 2018

Representing grounding line migration in synchronous coupling between a marine ice sheet model and a z -coordinate ocean model

1 May, 2018

Diapycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean diagnosed using the DIMES tracer and realistic velocity fields

1 April, 2018

Calibrated seismic imaging of eddy-dominated warm-water transport across the Bellingshausen Sea, Southern Ocean

1 April, 2018

Sources, variability and fate of freshwater in the Bellingshausen Sea, AntarcticaSources, variability and fate of freshwater in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

1 March, 2018

Ocean-forced ice-shelf thinning in a synchronously coupled ice-ocean model

1 February, 2018

Oceanographic Controls on the Variability of Ice-Shelf Basal Melting and Circulation of Glacial Meltwater in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

1 December, 2017

Channelized melting drives thinning under a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf

16 October, 2017

Ice and ocean velocity in the Arctic marginal ice zone: Ice roughness and momentum transfer

21 September, 2017

Inferences of ocean currents from seismic streamer position data

1 September, 2017

Explicit and parametrised representation of under ice shelf seas in a z* coordinate ocean model NEMO 3.6

26 July, 2017

Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage

24 July, 2017

The impact of atmospheric storminess on the sensitivity of Southern Ocean circulation to wind stress changes

15 July, 2017

Silica cycling and isotopic composition in northern Marguerite Bay on the rapidly-warming western Antarctic Peninsula

1 May, 2017

Summer microbial community composition governed by upper-ocean stratification and nutrient availability in northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

1 May, 2017

Modification of deep waters in Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula, caused by topographic overflows

1 May, 2017

Changing distributions of sea ice melt and meteoric water west of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 May, 2017

Glacial meltwater identification in the Amundsen Sea

20 April, 2017

The impact of Southern Ocean residual upwelling on atmospheric CO2 on centennial and millennial timescales

1 March, 2017

Oceanography and sea ice in the Southern Ocean

1 March, 2017

Vigorous lateral export of the meltwater outflow from beneath an Antarctic ice shelf

9 February, 2017

Mechanisms driving variability in the ocean forcing of Pine Island Glacier

1 January, 2017

Ocean mixing beneath Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica

1 December, 2016

Advection in polar and sub-polar environments: Impacts on high latitude marine ecosystems

14 October, 2016

Wind-driven export of Weddell Sea slope water

1 October, 2016

Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the role of the Amundsen Sea continental shelf in exchanges between ocean and ice shelves

1 October, 2016

Impacts and effects of ocean warming on Antarctic ecosystems and species

9 September, 2016

How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics?

1 September, 2016

Observed vulnerability of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to wind-driven inflow of warm deep water

2 August, 2016

Water-mass transformation by sea ice in the upper branch of the Southern Ocean overturning

22 June, 2016

A simple model of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer and current

1 June, 2016

Understanding the structure of changes in the Southern Ocean eddy field

1 June, 2016

Decadal-scale thermohaline variability in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

1 May, 2016

Oxygen depletion recorded in upper waters of the glacial Southern Ocean

1 March, 2016

Gill’s model of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, revisited: the role of latitudinal variations in wind stress

1 January, 2016

The interdisciplinary marine system of the Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean: recent advances and the need for sustained observations

1 January, 2016

The thermodynamic balance of the Weddell Gyre

1 January, 2016

Planetary-geometric constraints on isopycnal slope in the Southern Ocean

1 December, 2015

Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period

1 December, 2015

Comparative roles of upwelling and glacial iron sources in Ryder Bay, coastal western Antarctic Peninsula

1 November, 2015

Sensitivity of Southern Ocean circulation to wind stress changes: Role of relative wind stress

1 November, 2015

Model sensitivity of the Weddell and Ross seas, Antarctica, to vertical mixing and freshwater forcing

1 October, 2015

Seismic reflection imaging of mixing processes in Fram Strait

1 October, 2015

Vertical flow in the Southern Ocean estimated from individual moorings

1 September, 2015

Assimilation of sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration and sea ice drift in a model of the Southern Ocean

1 September, 2015

Weakening of the global atmospheric circulation with global warming

1 August, 2015

Freshwater distributions and water mass structure in the Amundsen Sea Polynya region, Antarctica

1 August, 2015

Characterization of distinct bloom phenology regimes in the Southern Ocean

1 July, 2015

Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water

1 July, 2015

Southern Ocean

1 July, 2015

Estimating a sub-mesoscale diffusivity using a roughness measure applied to a tracer release experiment in the Southern Ocean

1 June, 2015

Modification of turbulent dissipation rates by a deep Southern Ocean eddy

16 May, 2015

An atmospheric origin of the multi-decadal bipolar seesaw

10 March, 2015

The role of ocean gateways in the dynamics and sensitivity to wind stress of the early Antarctic Circumpolar Current

1 March, 2015

Circulation, retention and mixing of waters within the Weddell-Scotia Confluence, Southern Ocean: the role of stratified Taylor columns

13 January, 2015

Recent trends in the Southern Ocean eddy field

1 January, 2015

Ocean glider observations of iceberg-enhanced biological production in the northwestern Weddell Sea

1 January, 2015

Estimation of ice shelf melt rate in the presence of a thermohaline staircase

1 January, 2015

Seasonal variability of the warm Atlantic Water layer in the vicinity of the Greenland shelf break

16 December, 2014

Estimating ocean currents from the shapes of laterally steered streamer arrays

1 December, 2014

Boundary mixing in Orkney Passage outflow

1 December, 2014

Sustaining observations in the polar oceans

28 September, 2014

Hydrography and circulation in the Filchner Depression, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

1 September, 2014

Feedbacks between ice cover, ocean stratification, and heat content in Ryder Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula

4 August, 2014

Environmental setting

1 August, 2014

Assessing status and change in Southern Ocean ecosystems

1 August, 2014

Eddy-induced variability in Southern Ocean abyssal mixing on climatic timescales

13 July, 2014

The contribution of the Weddell Gyre to the lower limb of the global overturning circulation

14 June, 2014

Introduction: The Southern Ocean, carbon and climate

2 June, 2014

New models and observations of the Southern Ocean, its role in global climate and the carbon cycle

2 June, 2014

Dense waters of the Weddell and Scotia Seas: recent changes in properties and circulation

2 June, 2014

The Southern Ocean in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

2 June, 2014

Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope

2 June, 2014

Freshwater fluxes in the Weddell Gyre: results from δ18O

2 June, 2014

Aspects of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics investigated with drifter data

1 June, 2014

Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic shelf seas

29 April, 2014

The effect of geometry on ice shelf ocean cavity ventilation: a laboratory experiment

20 April, 2014

Geometric and oceanographic controls on melting beneath Pine Island Glacier

15 April, 2014

On the Seasonal Signal of the Filchner Overflow, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

1 April, 2014

Evidence for two abrupt warming events of SST in the last century

1 April, 2014

Export and circulation of ice cavity water in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica

11 March, 2014

Wave breaking in dense plumes

1 February, 2014

Minimal change in Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow speed between the last glacial and Holocene

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

Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments

16 December, 2013

Ice shelf/ocean interactions under the Amery Ice Shelf: seasonal variability and its effect on marine ice formation

1 December, 2013

Variability of circumpolar deep water transport onto the Amundsen Sea continental shelf through a shelf break trough

1 December, 2013

Eddy-driven exchange between the open ocean and a sub-ice shelf cavity

1 November, 2013

Modeling interannual dense shelf water export in the region of the Mertz Glacier Tongue (1992-2007)

28 October, 2013

Decadal freshening of the Antarctic Bottom Water exported from the Weddell Sea

15 October, 2013

Efficient flowline simulations of ice-shelf/ocean interactions: Sensitivity studies with a fully coupled model

1 October, 2013

Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current

1 October, 2013

Penguin biogeography along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the canyon hypothesis with Palmer LTER observations

1 September, 2013

Adaptation of an unstructured-mesh, finite-element ocean model to the simulation of ocean circulation beneath ice shelves

1 July, 2013

Oceanographic observations at the shelf break of the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

13 June, 2013

Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES)

1 June, 2013

Remotely induced warming of Antarctic Bottom Water in the eastern Weddell gyre

1 June, 2013

Use of radium isotopes to estimate mixing rates and trace sediment inputs to surface waters in northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

1 June, 2013

Vertical Eddy Fluxes in the Southern Ocean

1 May, 2013

Impact of atmospheric forcing on Antarctic continental shelf water masses

1 May, 2013

Biological production in the Bellingshausen Sea from oxygen-to-argon ratios and oxygen triple isotopes

5 April, 2013

Antarctica: global science from a frozen continent

4 April, 2013

Using data assimilation to investigate the causes of Southern Hemisphere high latitude cooling from 10 to 8 ka BP

3 April, 2013

Assessment of Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth in CMIP5 models: historical bias and forcing response

1 April, 2013

Assessment of Southern Ocean water mass circulation and characteristics in CMIP5 models: Historical bias and forcing response

1 April, 2013

Seasonal variability of water masses and transport on the Antarctic continental shelf and slope in the southeastern Weddell Sea

1 April, 2013

Dense bottom layers in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean: Creation, lifespan, and destruction

16 March, 2013

Variability in the ENSO-induced southern hemispheric circulation and Antarctic sea ice extent

15 March, 2013

The freshwater system west of the Antarctic Peninsula: spatial and temporal changes

1 March, 2013

Wave-current interactions in a wave-dominated tidal inlet

1 March, 2013

Oceanography: Replenishing the abyss

24 February, 2013

Inferring ocean currents from the shapes of towed seismic streamers. Extended abstract

21 February, 2013

Wintertime water mass modification near an Antarctic ice front

1 February, 2013

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 …