Ocean circulation

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 …

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

What controls the influx and mixing of warm waters onto the polar ocean shelves?

Oceanographic models for the Scotia Sea

Development of regional models to examine the detailed oceanography of island shelves and surrounding regions.

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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 …

Boundary processes and neodymium cycling along the Pacific margin of West Antarctica

15 June, 2022

Sedimentary model for mixed depositional systems along the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula: decoding the interplay of deep-water processes

1 March, 2022

Un-mixing the ocean: double diffusion and turbulence in polar oceans

19 January, 2022

Shear, Stability and Mixing within the Ice-Shelf-Ocean Boundary Current

1 July, 2021

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Local and remote influences on the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions

28 April, 2021

Miocene to present oceanographic variability in the Scotia Sea and Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics: Insight from revised seismic-stratigraphy following IODP Expedition 382

1 January, 2021

Tracking the spread of a passive tracer through Southern Ocean water masses

12 March, 2020

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Interannual variability of the outflow of Weddell Sea bottom water

24 February, 2020

Topographic control of Southern Ocean gyres and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: a barotropic perspective

1 December, 2019

Heat distribution in the Southeast Pacific is only weakly sensitive to high-latitude heat flux and wind stress.

1 December, 2019

A see-saw in Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water formation driven by atmospheric modes

1 December, 2019

Three-dimensional structure of a cold-core Arctic eddy interacting with the Chukchi Slope Current

1 November, 2019

The role of eddies and topography in the export of shelf waters from the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf

1 November, 2019

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Wind-driven processes controlling oceanic heat delivery to the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

10 September, 2019

Stabilization of dense Antarctic water supply to the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation

2 September, 2019

The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

1 September, 2019

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 circulation and frontal dynamics from Cryosat-2 a long-track radar altimetry

24 July, 2019

Crossing Drake's Passage. Waves crashing over the bow of the RRS Ernest Shackleton during a Force 12 storm.

Morphological and geological features of Drake Passage, Antarctica, from a new digital bathymetric model

3 July, 2019

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Rapid mixing and exchange of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current

2 July, 2019

Phased response of the subpolar Southern Ocean to changes in circumpolar winds

16 June, 2019

From observation to information and users: The Copernicus Marine Service perspective

22 May, 2019

Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float temperature profiles

4 May, 2019

Paleocirculation and ventilation history of Southern Ocean sourced deep water masses during the last 800,000 years

1 May, 2019

Recent reoccurrence of large open‐ocean polynya on the Maud Rise Seamount

28 April, 2019

The effects of enhanced sea ice export from the Ross Sea on recent cooling and freshening of the Southeast Pacific

1 April, 2019

An analytical derivation of ice-shelf basal melt based on the dynamics of meltwater plumes

1 April, 2019

The residence time of Southern Ocean surface waters and the 100,000-year ice age cycle

8 March, 2019

Responses of sub-ice platelet layer thickening rate and frazil-ice concentration to variations in ice-shelf water supercooling in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

12 February, 2019

Propagation and vertical structure of the tidal flow in Nares Strait

1 January, 2019

The global importance of the Southern Ocean and the key role of its freshwater cycle

1 January, 2019

Interconnectivity between volume transports through Arctic straits

1 December, 2018

Variability in basal melting beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on weekly to monthly timescales

14 November, 2018

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

1 November, 2018

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

1 October, 2018

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

1 October, 2018

Southern Ocean carbon-wind stress feedback

1 October, 2018

A decade of ocean changes impacting the ice shelf of Petermann Gletscher, Greenland

1 October, 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

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

10 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

Onset and development of the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea gateways and its influence on global ocean circulation and climate (IODP proposal)

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

Global climate impacts from changes in Antarctic Intermediate Water

15 August, 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

Ocean Floor Observation System (OFOS)

1 January, 2013

Heat-flow determinations of basement age in small oceanic basins of the southern central Scotia Sea

1 January, 2013

Comparison of the structure and function of Southern Ocean regional ecosystems: The Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia

1 January, 2013

Representation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the CMIP5 climate models and future changes under warming scenarios

1 December, 2012

Ocean circulation beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica from in situ observations

11 October, 2012

Seasonal inflow of warm water onto the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf, Antarctica

1 September, 2012

Mapping unstable manifolds using drifters/floats in a Southern Ocean field campaign

1 September, 2012

Mindanao current/undercurrent in an eddy-resolving GCM

29 June, 2012

Oceanographic conditions beneath Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica

9 February, 2012

Fronts and habitat zones in the Scotia Sea

1 January, 2012

Greater supply of Patagonian-sourced detritus and transport by the ACC to the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during the last glacial period

1 January, 2012

Spatial and Temporal Operation of the Scotia Sea Ecosystem

1 January, 2012

The influence of eddy parameterizations on the transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in coupled climate models

1 January, 2012

Autocorrelation characteristics of the surface ocean pCO2 and air-sea CO2 fluxes

1 January, 2012

Observations of Thermohaline Convection adjacent to Brunt Ice Shelf

1 January, 2012

Implementing a Southern Ocean Observing System

1 January, 2012

Advective pathways near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula: Trends, variability and ecosystem implications

1 January, 2012

The neodymium isotopic composition of waters masses in the eastern Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2012

The Southern Ocean Observing System: Initial science and implementation strategy

1 January, 2012

The Southern Ocean Observing System

1 January, 2012

Physical and behavioural influences on larval fish retention: contrasting patterns in two Antarctic fishes

1 January, 2012

Spatial distribution of pCO2, ΔO2/Ar and dimethylsulfide (DMS)in polynya waters and the sea ice zone of the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

1 January, 2012

Jets and topography: jet transitions and the impact on transport in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

1 January, 2012

Sensitivity of the overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean to decadal changes in wind forcing

1 January, 2012

Dynamic seasonal cycling of inorganic carbon downstream of South Georgia, Southern Ocean

1 January, 2012

Abrupt changes in high-latitude nutrient supply to the Atlantic during the last glacial cycle

1 January, 2012

Ice-shelf basal channels in a coupled ice/ocean model

1 January, 2012

The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment: A First Assessment

1 January, 2012

South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC) – Fourth Workshop

1 January, 2012

The Marine System of the Western Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2012

Localized subduction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the Southern Hemisphere oceans

1 January, 2012

The Southern Ocean Observing System

1 January, 2012

The formation of nonzonal jets over sloped topography

1 January, 2012

The impact of high-frequency current variability on dispersion off the eastern Antarctic Peninsula

1 November, 2011

Low frequency variability of Southern Ocean jets

1 September, 2011

Temperature signature of high latitude Atlantic boundary currents revealed by marine mammal-borne sensor and Argo data

2 August, 2011

On the response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport to climate change in coupled climate models

1 August, 2011

Cruise Report RRS James Clark Ross JR252 & JR254C, 19 March – 6 April 2011

23 May, 2011

High-resolution modelling of the shelf and open ocean adjacent to South Georgia, Southern Ocean

1 January, 2011

Mean-flow and topographic control on surface eddy-mixing in the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2011

Observed circulation in the Solomon Sea from SADCP data

1 January, 2011

Weather and climate

1 January, 2011

Parameterization of eddy-induced subduction in the Southern Ocean surface-layer

1 January, 2011

Synchronous intensification and warming of Antarctic Bottom Water outflow from the Weddell Gyre

1 January, 2011

Convection-driven melting near the grounding lines of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers

1 January, 2011

Stronger ocean circulation and increased melting under Pine Island Glacier ice shelf

1 January, 2011

Oscillating dense plumes

1 January, 2011

Changes in micronutrient supply to the surface Southern Ocean (Atlantic Sector) across the glacial termination

1 January, 2011

Ice-stream response to ocean tides and the form of the basal sliding law

1 January, 2011

North Atlantic climate responses to perturbations in Antarctic intermediate water

1 January, 2011

Near-bottom current direction inferred from comatulid crinoid feeding postures on the Terre Adelie and George V shelf, East Antarctica

1 January, 2011

Convective heat transfer over thin ice covered coastal polynyas

1 October, 2010

Monitoring the Atlantic Circumpolar Current in the Drake Passage: oceanography in the Drake Passage: wherefrom, whereto and what in between?

13 April, 2010

Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) : experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1)

26 March, 2010

A consistent data set of Antarctic ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and global bathymetry

1 January, 2010

A comment on the Equation of State and the freezing point equation with respect to subglacial lake modelling

1 January, 2010

Modelling the impact of ocean warming on melting and water masses of ice shelves in the Eastern Weddell Sea

1 January, 2010

The flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current over the North Scotia Ridge

1 January, 2010

Western Pacific coastal sources of iron, manganese, and aluminum to the Equatorial Undercurrent

1 January, 2010

Comparison of the emergent behavior of a complex ecosystem model in two ocean general circulation models

1 January, 2010

Perfluorinated compounds in the Antarctic region: Ocean circulation provides prolonged protection from distant sources

1 January, 2010

Hypothesis for mega-outburst flooding from a palaeo-subglacial lake beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

1 January, 2010

Observation and parameterization of ablation at the base of Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2010

Palaeoclimate Southern westerlies and CO2

1 January, 2010

Changes in the freshwater composition of the upper ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the first decade of the 21st century

1 January, 2010

Deep equatorial ocean circulation induced by a forced- dissipated Yanai beam

1 January, 2010

Enhancement of mesoscale eddy stirring at steering levels in the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2010

Wind-driven diversion of summer river runoff preconditions the Laptev Sea coastal polynya hydrography: Evidence from summer-to-winter hydrographic records of 2007-2009

1 January, 2010

New insights into Southern Ocean physical and biological processes revealed by instrumented elephant seals

1 January, 2010

Biologging in the global ocean observing system

1 January, 2010

Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS): Rationale and strategy for sustained observations of the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2010

CO2-driven ocean circulation changes as an amplifier of Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum hydrate destabilization

1 January, 2010

Non-linear responses of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica, to semi-diurnal and diurnal tidal forcing

1 January, 2010

Wind-controlled export of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Weddell Sea

1 January, 2010

Rapid changes in surface water carbonate chemistry during Antarctic sea ice melt

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

Extreme deepening of the Atlantic overturning circulation during deglaciation

1 January, 2010

Damping of tropical instability waves caused by the action of surface currents on stress

1 January, 2009

Robustness of an effective diffusivity diagnostic in oceanic flows

1 January, 2009

Freshwater transport at Fimbulisen, Antarctica

1 January, 2009

Surface circulation at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula from drifters

1 January, 2009

Nitrogen fixation in the western equatorial Pacific: Rates, diazotrophic cyanobacterial size class distribution, and biogeochemical significance

1 January, 2009

Observations of the North Equatorial Current, Mindanao Current and Kuroshio current system during the 2006/07 El Nino and 2007/08 La Nina

1 January, 2009

Ice-ocean processes over the continental shelf of the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica: a review

1 January, 2009

Numerical simulation of the Filchner overflow

1 January, 2009

Understanding the regional variability of eddy diffusivity in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2009

The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode

1 January, 2009

Validation of three global ocean models in the Weddell Sea

1 January, 2009

Circum-Antarctic age modelling of Quaternary marine cores under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: ice-core dust-magnetic correlation

1 January, 2009

The sources and fate of freshwater exported in the East Greenland Current

1 January, 2009

Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation

1 January, 2009

The thermohaline expressway: The Southern Ocean as a centre of origin for deep-sea octopuses

1 December, 2008

Circulation and melting beneath George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 April, 2008

Generation of a buoyancy-driven coastal current by an Antarctic polynya

1 January, 2008

Ocean biogeochemical response to phytoplankton-light feedback in a global model

1 January, 2008

Closure of the Panama Seaway during the Pliocene: implications for climate and Northern Hemisphere glaciation

1 January, 2008

Freshwater fluxes east of Greenland

1 January, 2008

Importance of coastal nutrient supply for global ocean biogeochemistry

1 January, 2008

Antarctic Circumpolar Current frontal system in the South Atlantic: monitoring using merged Argo and animal-borne sensor data

1 January, 2008

Introduction to ‘Antarctic cryosphere and Southern Ocean climate evolution (Cenozoic-Holocene)

1 January, 2008

The present and past bottom-current flow regime around the sediment drifts on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2008

The heat is on

1 January, 2008

West Antarctic Peninsula sea ice in 2005: extreme ice compaction and ice edge retreat due to strong anomaly with respect to climate

1 January, 2008

Saturated sink

1 January, 2008

Response to comments on “Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change”

1 January, 2008

Eddy heat flux in the Southern Ocean: response to variable wind forcing

1 January, 2008

Spatial demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea

1 January, 2008

Seasonal and interannual variability in temperature, chlorophyll and macronutrients in northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

1 January, 2008

Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill

1 January, 2008

Validity of the Ice Shelf Water plume concept under Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

1 January, 2007

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

Holocene relative sea level changes in a glacio-isostatic area: new data from south-west Scotland, United Kingdom

1 January, 2007

Mass balance of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic

1 January, 2007

Impact of instantaneous sea ice removal in a coupled general circulation model

1 January, 2007

Widespread acceleration of tidewater glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2007

Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea continental shelf: implications for geology, oceanography, and glaciology

1 January, 2007

East Antarctic continental margin, oceanography of

1 January, 2007

Oceanographic processes near the Filchner Sill – plans for fieldwork in 2007

1 January, 2007

Drake Passage, opening of

1 January, 2007

Melting of floating ice and sea level rise

1 January, 2007

Interannual to diurnal variability in the near-surface scattering layer in Drake Passage

1 January, 2007

Tidal vertical mixing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

1 January, 2006

The fieldwork during the “Polarstern” cruise ANT XVI/2 as a contribution to the study of bottom water formation and sea ice transport in the Weddell Sea

1 January, 2006

Antarctica: closer than you think

1 January, 2006

Oceanographic conditions beneath Ronne Ice Shelf: a comparison between model and field data

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

Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front to the northeast of South Georgia: horizontal advection of krill and its role in the ecosystem

1 January, 2004

Modeling the krill transport pathways in the Scotia Sea: spatial and environmental connections generating the seasonal distribution of krill

1 January, 2004

Impact of the 1997/98 ENSO on upper ocean characteristics in Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2004

Ocean processes and seasonal flow along Ronne Ice Front

1 January, 2004

Shackleton Fracture Zone: no barrier to early circumpolar ocean circulation

1 January, 2004

SeaWiFs in the southern ocean: spatial and temporal variability in phytoplankton biomass around South Georgia

1 January, 2004

Temporal and spatial distribution of chlorophyll-a in surface waters of the Scotia Sea as determined by both shipboard measurements and satellite data

1 January, 2004

Late Quaternary terrigenous sediments from the Murray Canyons area, offshore South Australia and their implications for sea level change, palaeoclimate and palaeodrainage of the Murray-Darling Basin

1 January, 2004

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Antarctica

1 January, 2004

Tracking passive drifters in a high resolution ocean model: implications for interannual variability of larval krill transport to South Georgia

1 January, 2004

Circulation and water masses beneath the northern Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2004

Interannual variability and ventilation timescales in the ocean cavity beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2004

Summertime water masses off the northern Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2004

Seasonal ventilation of the cavity beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf simulated with an isopycnic coordinate ocean model

1 January, 2004

Factors influencing the distribution, biomass, and productivity of phytoplankton in the Scotia Sea and adjoining waters

1 January, 2004

Advection, krill, and Antarctic marine ecosystems

1 January, 2004

Miocene changes in bottom current regime recorded in continental rise sediments on the Pacific Margin of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2004

Modelling Pliocene warmth: contribution of atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere

1 January, 2004

Reconstructing the oceans of the Late Miocene: how the shell chemistry of fossils reveals ancient patterns of ocean circulation

1 January, 2004

Physical oceanography in the Scotia Sea during the CCAMLR 2000 survey, austral summer 2000

1 January, 2004

The role of the Southern Ocean in global processes: an earth system science approach

1 January, 2004

Sea surface temperature anomalies near South Georgia: relationships with the Pacific El Nino regions

1 January, 2003

Oceanographic variability and changes in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) abundance at South Georgia

1 January, 2003

Transport and variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage

1 January, 2003

Water mass modification over the continental shelf north of Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2003

An anticyclonic circulation above the Northwest Georgia Rise, Southern Ocean

1 January, 2003

From Port Stanley, 4th April, 2003

1 January, 2003

An exceptional winter sea-ice retreat/advance in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

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

Foreword to special section: Southern Ocean large-scale variability

1 January, 2003

Southern ACC Front to the northeast of South Georgia: pathways, characteristics, and fluxes

1 January, 2003

Variability of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current front north of South Georgia

1 January, 2002

Mixed biosiliceous-terrigenous sedimentation under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Scotia Sea

1 January, 2002

The Weddell Sea: contourites and hemipelagites at the northern margin of the Weddell Gyre

1 January, 2002

A reconstruction of the air-sea interaction associated with the Weddell Polynya

1 January, 2002

Modeling studies of antarctic krill Euphausia superba survival during transport across the Scotia Sea

1 January, 2002

Deep-water contourite systems: modern drifts and ancient series, seismic and sedimentary characteristics

1 January, 2002

The Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front: physical and biological coupling at South Georgia

1 January, 2002

Bottom curents, contourites and deep-sea sediment drifts: current state-of-the-art

1 January, 2002

A comparison of surface layer and surface turbulent flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses

1 January, 2002

Modeling tidal current profiles and vertical mixing beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2002

A model study of ocean circulation beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for bottom water formation

1 January, 2002

Protoperidiniacean dinoflagellate cyst taxa from the Upper Miocene of ODP Leg 178, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2002

Oceanographic conditions south of Berkner Island, beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

15 June, 2001

Freshwater fluxes through the western Fram Strait

1 April, 2001

Adaptation of an isopycnic coordinate ocean model for the study of circulation beneath ice shelves

1 January, 2001

Surface oceanography of the inferred hatching grounds of Illex argentinus (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) and influences on recruitment variability

1 January, 2001

A comparison of surface-layer and surface turbulent-flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses

1 January, 2001

The role of meltwater advection in the formulation of conservative boundary conditions at an ice-ocean interface

1 January, 2001

Chlorophyll/nutrient characteristics in the water masses to the north of South Georgia, Southern Ocean

1 January, 2000

Transport and structure within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the north of South Georgia

1 January, 2000

Discoloured water, Weddell Sea, 5 February 1999

1 January, 2000

Physical oceanographic conditions to the northwest of the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia

1 January, 2000

Modeling tidal currents beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and on the adjacent continental shelf: Their effect on mixing and transport

1 January, 1999

Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water; a Quaternary paleoflow record from the northern Scotia Sea, South Atlantic Ocean

1 January, 1999

Modeling Thermodynamic Ice–Ocean Interactions at the Base of an Ice Shelf

1 January, 1999

The shelf break front to the east of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia

1 January, 1999

Quaternary history of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: evidence from the Scotia Sea

1 January, 1998

Ocean circulation beneath the western Ronne Ice Shelf, as derived from in situ measurements of water currents and properties

1 January, 1998

Physical controls on ocean circulation beneath ice shelves revealed by numerical models

1 January, 1998

Mudwave activity and current-controlled sedimentation in Powell Basin, northern Weddell Sea, Antarctica

1 January, 1998

Krill transport in the Scotia Sea and environs

1 January, 1998

Oceanic erosion of a floating Antarctic glacier in the Amundsen Sea

1 January, 1998

Recent dinoflagellate cysts in a transect from the Falkland Trough to the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

1 January, 1998

A sediment record of cyclic bottom-current variability from the northwest Weddell Sea

1 January, 1998

Interactions between floating ice platelets and ocean water in the southern Weddell Sea

1 January, 1998

Characterization of the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone to the north of South Georgia in summer 1994

1 May, 1997

Pliocene-Holocene contourite deposition under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, western Falkland Trough, south Atlantic Ocean

1 April, 1997

Ten-month observation of the bottom current regime across a sediment drift of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 1997

New oceanographic data from beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 1997

Glaciological and oceanographic evidence of high melt rates beneath Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

1 January, 1997

Evidence for westward-flowing Weddell Sea Deep Water in the Falkland Trough, western South Atlantic

1 May, 1996

Temperature variability beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, from thermistor cables

1 January, 1996

Ocean tides under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 1996

Modeling the effects of frazil ice crystals on the dynamics and thermodynamics of Ice Shelf Water plumes

1 April, 1995

Current flow in the north-west Weddell Sea

1 March, 1995

On the southerly extent of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the southeast Pacific

1 January, 1995

High resolution observations of Weddell Sea surface currents using ERS-l SAR sea-ice motion vectors

1 January, 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

Late quaternary changes in Antarctic bottom water velocity inferred from sediment grain size in the northern Weddell Sea

1 June, 1992

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

Direct oceanographic observations from under the Rutford flowline, Ronne Ice Shelf

1 January, 1991

Periodic motions in Weddell Sea pack ice

1 January, 1989

Oceanic regimes at the ice fronts of George VI Sound, Antarctic Peninsula

1 April, 1988

Comparisons of sea level and bottom pressure measurements at Drake Passage

1 January, 1988

The tidal spectrum underneath Antarctic ice shelves

15 November, 1986

Some environmental factors influencing phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean around South Georgia

1 January, 1986

Tidal behaviour under an Antarctic ice shelf

1 January, 1985

Current, temperature, and salinity beneath George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 1984

Oceanographic observations from George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 1982

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 (Autosub Long Range) at its first Antarctic deployment into the Weddell Sea off RRS James Clark Ross

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 …

A large body of water with a mountain in the background.

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.

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