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Deep-reef fish communities of the Great Barrier Reef shelf-break: trophic structure and habitat associations
... of shelf-break reefs, with these habitats distinctive from shallower reefs along the continental ...distinguish shelf-break environments from shallower habitats, as well as differences among ...
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Exchange across the shelf break at high southern latitudes
... Antarctic shelf break has considerable scientific and societal importance due to its effects on circulation and biology of the region, conversion of water masses as part of the global overturning ...
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Seasonal variability of the warm Atlantic water layer in the vicinity of the Greenland shelf break
... Abstract The warmest water reaching the east and west coast of Greenland is found between 200 and 600 m. While important for melting Greenland ’ s outlet glaciers, limited winter observations of this layer prohibit ...
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Deep-reef fish assemblages of the Great Barrier Reef shelf-break (Australia)
... continental shelf-breaks and the effects of disturbances on deeper fish species have not yet been ...in shelf-break environments is poorly appreciated and depth is a strong predictor of assemblage ...
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Seasonal resonance of diurnal coastal trapped waves in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica
... Our study expands on previous investigations of tidally generated CTWs at diurnal frequencies in the shelf break re- gion of the southern Weddell Sea. Records from 29 moor- ings collected over more than 4 ...
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Wind causes Totten Ice Shelf melt and acceleration
... Totten Glacier in East Antarctica has the potential to raise global sea level by at least 3.5 m, but its sensitivity to climate change has not been well understood. The glacier is coupled to the ocean by the Totten Ice ...
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Between the devil and the deep blue sea : the role of the Amundsen Sea continental shelf in exchanges between ocean and ice shelves
... Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water transport onto the Amundsen Sea Continental shelf through a shelf break trough.. Stammer and A.S.[r] ...
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Upper ocean stratification and sea ice growth rates during the summer-fall transition, as revealed by Elephant seal foraging in the Ad´elie Depression, East Antarctica
... The migration of the SEaOS and IMOS seals, equipped with autonomous CTD-Satellite Relay Data Loggers (CTD- SDRL) at Macquarie Island, around the AGV continental shelf is detailed in Fig. 2. In late February 2005, ...
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Inorganic and organic geochemical fingerprinting of sediment sources and ocean circulation on a complex continental margin (São (Paulo Bight, Brazil)
... The shelf break/upper slope transition zone shows sandy sedi- ments with high concentrations of biolithoclastic and bio- clastic sediments (de Mahiques et ...
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Investigating the impact of ocean warming on Antarctic ice shelves
... continental shelf in this region (see ...continental shelf break in ...continental shelf processes but also inform future observational ...
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Ocean Science
... (inner shelf, outer shelf, and ...the shelf and describe how much of this production eventually reaches the deep ...European shelf is exported across the shelf break, and that ...
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Ichthyoplankton based spawning dynamics of blue mackerel (Scomber australasicus) in south eastern Australia: links to the East Australian Current
... outer shelf including the shelf ...the break in northern ...outer shelf as preferred spawning area, in waters 100–125 m deep with mean temperatures of ...
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Seasonal migrations of North Atlantic minke whales: novel insights from large-scale passive acoustic monitoring networks
... the shelf break edge during their northbound migration in spring than during their southbound migration in au- ...US shelf break, have also been described from IUSS-SOSUS acoustic array data ...
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Effect of the North Equatorial Counter Current on the generation and propagation of internal solitary waves off the Amazon shelf (SAR observations)
... Finally, we comment on the measurements reported in Brandt et al. (2002), who had recognized the possibility of IT generation at the Amazon shelf break, but whose mea- surements were sparse and did not ...
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Dynamic Planet
... continental shelf and the continental ...Continental shelf: The gently sloping region of the continental margin that extends seaward from the shoreline to the continental shelf ...
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The De Long Trough: a newly discovered glacial trough on the East Siberian continental margin
... the shelf break, where it forms two prominent sed- imentary mounds oriented transverse to the track ...the shelf break, mounded geometry, steeper seaward facing slopes (M1 and M2) and the ...
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Beneath the sea ice : exploring elephant seal foraging strategy in Earth’s extreme Antarctic polar environment
... continental shelf despite increasing sea ...the shelf (420 - 960 km from the ice ...continental shelf break where upwelling of nutrient rich Circumpolar Deep Water onto surface water may ...
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Halocline water modification and along-slope advection at the Laptev Sea continental margin
... between shelf waters, continen- tal slope waters and basin waters within the Lower Halo- cline Water (LHW) and low-salinity halocline water (LSHW) along the continental slope of the Laptev Sea ...Sea shelf ...
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Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
... Linear iceberg furrows exhibit high parallel conformity, often display a geomorphic expression similar to MSGLs, and are consistent with MSGL orientations. These linear fur- rows, however, are erosional features, whereas ...
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Diagnosing transit times on the northwestern North Atlantic continental shelf
... Scotian Shelf (less than 300 days), indicating the quick transport over the Lauren- tian Channel to the Scotian Shelf, rather than first entering the Gulf of ...Scotian Shelf via the NSC is found ...
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