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Preliminary Study on the Oxygen-Minimum Layer in Water Area Adjacent to South Shetland Islands and North of Ardleyd Island, Antarctica, in Summer

Furong, Li (1991) Preliminary Study on the Oxygen-Minimum Layer in Water Area Adjacent to South Shetland Islands and North of Ardleyd Island, Antarctica, in Summer. Advances in Polar Science, 2 (2). pp. 68-74.

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Abstract

In this paper, a distribution of the oxygen-minimum layer in the sea area adjacent to the South Shetland Islands and north of the Ardleyd Island, Antarctica, in summer is discussed. The vertical distribution of oxygen-minimum layer has the following features: 1). The depth at which the oxygen content greatly decreases is coincident with the depth of pycnocline; 2). There is a thick water layer with low oxygen content; 3). The oxygen-minimum layer occurs below the thermocline and coincides with the depth at which the temperature mostly increases. According to preliminary result of correlation analysis, the variation of oxygen-minimum layer is related to physical properties of the circulation and biochemical process in deep layer of the ocean.

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    Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2023 09:07
    URI: http://library.arcticportal.org/id/eprint/2038

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