Abstract: any aspects of the coupling between the ocean and atmosphere at the mesoscale (on the order of 20?100 km) remain unknown. While recent observations from the Southern Ocean revealed that circular fronts associated with ...

Abstract: AbstractThe Weddell Sea polynya is a large opening in the open-ocean sea ice cover associated with intense deep convection in the ocean. A necessary condition to form and maintain a polynya is the presence of a strong ...

Abstract: his study examines the role of processes transporting tracers across the Polar Front (PF) in the depth interval between the surface and major topographic sills, which this study refers to as the ?PF core.? A preindustrial ...