Supercooled water in austral summer in Prydz Bay, Antarctica

Jiuxin Shi; Yaoyao Cheng; Yutian Jiao; Jiaqiang Hou

doi:10.1007/s00343-010-0011-5

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Supercooled water in austral summer in Prydz Bay, Antarctica

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- Supercooled water in austral summer in Prydz Bay, Antarctica
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 29, Issue 2, Pages: 427-437(2011)
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  1. Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography Ministry of Education
  2. College of Physical and Environmental Oceanography Ocean University of China
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-010-0011-5
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- Online First：21 October 2010，
  
  Published：2011
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Shi, J., Cheng, Y., Jiao, Y. et al. Supercooled water in austral summer in Prydz Bay, Antarctica., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 427–437 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-010-0011-5
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Shi, J., Cheng, Y., Jiao, Y. et al. Supercooled water in austral summer in Prydz Bay, Antarctica., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 427–437 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-010-0011-5 DOI：

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Abstract

Supercooled water with temperatures below freezing point

was identified from hydrographic data obtained by Chinese and Australian expeditions to Prydz Bay

Antarctica

during the austral summer. The study shows that most supercooled waters occurred at depths of 63–271 m in the region north of the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) front. The maximum supercooling was 0.16°C below the in-situ freezing point. In temperature and salinity ranges of −2.14–1.96°C and 34.39–34.46

respectively

the water was colder and fresher than peripheral shelf water. The supercooled water had less variability in the vertical profiles compared to shelf water. Based on analysis of their thermohaline features and spatial distribution

as well as the circulation pattern in Prydz Bay

we conclude that these supercooled waters originated from a cavity beneath the AIS and resulted from upwelling just outside of the AIS front. Water emerging from the ice shelf cools to an extremely low temperature (about −2.0°C) by additional cooling from the ice shelf

and becomes buoyant with the addition of melt water from the ice shelf base. When this water flows out of the ice shelf front

its upper boundary is removed

and thus it rises abruptly. Once the temperature of this water reaches below the freezing point

supercooling takes place. In summer

the seasonal pycnocline at ∼100 m water depth acts as a barrier to upwelling and supercooling. The upwelling of ice shelf outflow water illuminates a unique mid-depth convection of the polar ocean.

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