• 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...
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    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...
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  • undersea abyssal plain Weddell Point, on South Georgia Island Weddell Point, Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands Weddell Polynya, an area of water surrounded...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Rise (near South Georgia Island off South America), and Maud Rise. Weddell Polynya "GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data". "Maud Rise". Geographic Names Information...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    much as 137,700 km2. This polynya lasted for several weeks before disappearing on August 16, 1980. "The Cosmonaut Polynya". www.atmosp.physics.utoronto...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    station Ice calving Sea ice Polar ice cap Polar ice pack (disambiguation) Polynya Sea ice Seabed gouging by ice Shelf ice "Iceberg Formation: International...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    a wide range of hydrodynamic conditions including seasonal ice cover, polynyas, fronts, gyres, freshwater input and influences, and large seasonal variations...
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    (2007-05-01). "Investigations of newly formed sea ice in the Cape Bathurst polynya: 1. Structural, physical, and optical properties". Journal of Geophysical...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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