What:
Characterize carbon fluxes and associated uncertainty in the Southern Ocean in diverse provinces
Areas of bottom water formation
Areas where intermediate waters are subducted
Melting glaciers
Rapidly changing sea ice (Ross Sea, Amundsen Sea)
Some blue water areas?
Where
Sample north-south transects
West side of Antarctic Peninsula
Ross Sea
Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas
adjacent West Antarctic Ice Sheet
stability of ice sheet? George VI ice sheet?
Fresh water in put region may impact USA Palmer LTER, AMLR
East side of Antarctic Peninsula
little intermediate water is formed there
largest along-stream transition in communities
result of shelf sediment input to S. Scotia Sea
processes related to Shakleton Transverse Ridge steering ACC onto shelf
Drake Passage region has dramatic bathymetry reglulted dynamics
Ona Basin and other features with large bathymetry created eddis
Edddy diameters much greater than Rossby scale