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 off Antarctica and near the Maud Rise.[1][2] The formation of the polynya exposes relatively warmer ocean waters (at surface freezing temperatures of –1.9 °C) to a cold atmosphere, leading to a large exchange of heat which drives deep convection in the ocean, often reaching depths of 1,000 to 2,000 meters.[3]
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The WeddellPolynya, 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...
dynamics. One of the most famous mid-sea polynyas is the WeddellPolynya, also known as the Maud Rise Polynya, which occurs in the Lazarev Sea over the...
undersea abyssal plain Weddell Point, on South Georgia Island Weddell Point, Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands WeddellPolynya, an area of water surrounded...
Rise (near South Georgia Island off South America), and Maud Rise. WeddellPolynya "GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data". "Maud Rise". Geographic Names Information...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
much as 137,700 km2. This polynya lasted for several weeks before disappearing on August 16, 1980. "The Cosmonaut Polynya". www.atmosp.physics.utoronto...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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