The Weddell Polynya, or Weddell Sea Polynya, is a polynya, or irregular area of open water surrounded by sea ice, in the Weddell Sea of the Southern Ocean...
6 KB (668 words) - 15:09, 10 June 2024
dynamics. One of the most famous mid-sea polynyas is the Weddell Polynya, also known as the Maud Rise Polynya, which occurs in the Lazarev Sea over the...
17 KB (1,977 words) - 20:32, 11 September 2024
undersea abyssal plain Weddell Point, on South Georgia Island Weddell Point, Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands Weddell Polynya, an area of water surrounded...
1 KB (201 words) - 00:34, 28 July 2022
McMurdo Sound Polynyas in McMurdo Sound Riiser-Larsen Sea Ross Sea Scotia Sea Somov Sea Spencer Gulf Weddell Sea Weddell Polynya/Maud Rise Polynya While all...
24 KB (2,762 words) - 16:45, 2 September 2024
Weddell Sea Bottom Water (WSBW) is a subset of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) that is at a temperature of -0.7 °C or colder. It consists of a higher salinity...
9 KB (1,336 words) - 01:55, 4 July 2021
Rise (near South Georgia Island off South America), and Maud Rise. Weddell Polynya "GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data". "Maud Rise". Geographic Names Information...
2 KB (289 words) - 06:33, 2 May 2024
losses and vertical deep mixing. The convection in the Weddell Sea is mostly associated with polynya. According to Akitomo et al. (1995), Arnold L. Gordon...
26 KB (3,709 words) - 02:46, 15 July 2024
created is formed in the Weddell and Ross Seas, off the Adélie Coast and by Cape Darnley from surface water cooling in polynyas and below the ice shelf...
22 KB (2,608 words) - 10:14, 27 June 2024
high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas. However, a polynya of about 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi), known as the North Water, opens in...
22 KB (2,422 words) - 02:55, 3 September 2024
a polynya, developed three years in a row in the seasonal ice that encases Antarctica each winter. Located in the Weddell Sea, each year the polynya vanished...
16 KB (1,530 words) - 13:12, 9 April 2024
shelves will blow the newly formed sea ice away, opening polynyas in locations such as Weddell and Ross Seas, off the Adélie Coast and by Cape Darnley...
25 KB (4,973 words) - 18:59, 5 July 2024
much as 137,700 km2. This polynya lasted for several weeks before disappearing on August 16, 1980. "The Cosmonaut Polynya". www.atmosp.physics.utoronto...
3 KB (373 words) - 08:40, 11 May 2024
record Secchi depth of 79 m has been reported from a coastal polynya of the Eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. In other sea waters, Secchi depths in the 50...
28 KB (3,462 words) - 12:15, 14 August 2024
nests across an area of approximately 92 square miles at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. The majority of nests were occupied by one adult fish...
26 KB (3,113 words) - 04:30, 18 August 2024
the western edge of the Ross Sea. The Ross Sea circulation, dominated by polynya processes, is in general very slow-moving. Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW)...
41 KB (4,741 words) - 00:25, 5 May 2024
Officer of the Order of Canada (2000) Stirling I (1997) The importance of polynyas, ice edges, and leads to marine mammals and birds. Journal of Marine Systems...
13 KB (1,196 words) - 12:50, 15 September 2024
The species tends to frequent areas where sea ice meets water, such as polynyas and leads, to hunt the seals that make up most of its diet. Polar bears...
95 KB (12,404 words) - 23:26, 3 September 2024
Extracts from it were published under the title "The Arctic Pack and the Polynya" in the volume issued in 1929 by the American Geographical Society, Problems...
57 KB (6,660 words) - 19:09, 2 September 2024
thicknesses ranging between 0.9 and 2.2 m, denotes the refreezing of the Lincoln Polynya ice. These helicopter measurements concur with satellite-based radar imagery...
12 KB (1,408 words) - 12:12, 6 April 2023
station Ice calving Sea ice Polar ice cap Polar ice pack (disambiguation) Polynya Sea ice Seabed gouging by ice Shelf ice "Iceberg Formation: International...
43 KB (4,516 words) - 04:39, 3 September 2024
Bottom Water production by intense sea-ice formation in the Cape Darnley polynya". Nature Geoscience. 6 (3): 235. Bibcode:2013NatGe...6..235O. doi:10.1038/ngeo1738...
43 KB (4,837 words) - 17:01, 22 August 2024
Exploration Niven, J., The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Polynyas in the Chukchi Sea: [1] Polar bear protection in the Chukchi Sea: Polar...
20 KB (2,196 words) - 14:58, 31 August 2024
of 2–3 m. The southern winter winds shift this ice northwards, making polynyas near the sea centre. There are no icebergs in the sea. Ice melting typically...
22 KB (2,756 words) - 17:43, 29 August 2024
a wide range of hydrodynamic conditions including seasonal ice cover, polynyas, fronts, gyres, freshwater input and influences, and large seasonal variations...
39 KB (4,049 words) - 03:21, 16 September 2024
(2007-05-01). "Investigations of newly formed sea ice in the Cape Bathurst polynya: 1. Structural, physical, and optical properties". Journal of Geophysical...
18 KB (2,453 words) - 07:13, 9 August 2024
winds keep the ice pack in constant motion and contribute to the numerous polynyas and shore leads which are found throughout the region. This same motion...
9 KB (1,032 words) - 16:17, 29 July 2024
travelled only a short distance under the ice before resurfacing through a polynya, but her radios had been badly damaged, requiring days to repair. The scientific...
11 KB (1,209 words) - 10:25, 23 June 2024
promoted to professor in 2014. Daly's early research was conducted in the Weddell Sea where she examined the abundance, growth, and feeding of krill. Subsequently...
12 KB (1,190 words) - 05:17, 10 December 2023
which are free of ice then, and in winter migrate long distances to the polynyas of the deep sea.[citation needed] Genetic analyses have confirmed that...
39 KB (4,502 words) - 02:58, 3 September 2024
the North Pole was in a sea, which in the 19th century was called the Polynya or Open Polar Sea. It was therefore hoped that passage could be found through...
75 KB (7,986 words) - 22:29, 12 September 2024