Cross–Shelf Exchange Along the Antarctic Continental Margin: Modeling Results
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چکیده
The shelf areas around the Antarctic Continent are locations of dense water formation; part of these water masses ventilate the adjacent deep ocean basins and enter the global thermohaline circulation. This paper takes a look at regional differences of shelf sea–deep ocean exchange in high southern latitudes (mainly between the Weddell and Ross Seas), highlights a few physical mechanisms potentially causing these differences (the influence of ice shelves, density driven flows, effects of topography, and tidal mixing effects) and points out the need for and possible ways of their parameterization in coarse resolution climate models.
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