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SUBMITTER: Darelius E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6049964 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geophysical research letters 20180423 8
The ice shelf water (ISW) found in the Filchner Trough, located in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, is climatically important; it descends into the deep Weddell Sea contributing to bottom water formation, and it blocks warm off-shelf waters from accessing the Filchner ice shelf cavity. Yet the circulation of ISW within the Filchner Trough and the processes determining its exchange across the ice shelf front are to a large degree unknown. Here mooring records from the ice shelf front are pre ...[more]