Antarctic Large Scale Box Analysis and The Role Of the Scotia Sea - ALBATROSS

RRS James Clark Ross

The principal scientists are Karen Heywood of the School of Environmental Sciences and David Stevens of the School of Mathematics at the University of East Anglia. There are 21 scientists and support staff participating in the cruise. The aim of the cruise is to study the influence of the Scotia Sea on global ocean circulation. Some background information, specific objectives and the proposed cruise track is available in PDF format (which can be read using the Acrobat reader software).

During the cruise we plan to issue regular bulletins describing our progress. These bulletins will include graphics showing the cruise track as we progress, a selection of initial results and some digital photographs.

• Newsletter week 0
• Cruise track to 16:00 GMT 16/3/99
• Newsletter week 1
• Cruise track to 15:30 GMT 22/3/99
• Newsletter week 2
• Cruise track to 01:00 GMT 29/3/99
• Newsletter week 3
• Cruise track to 00:00 GMT 7/4/99
• Temperature section across Drake Passage
• Newsletter week 4
• Cruise track to 16:00 GMT 13/4/99
• Final newsletter
• Cruise track
• The ALBATROSS Photo Album (updated 13/4/99)

• Heywood, K.J. and D.P. Stevens, ALBATROSS Cruise Report, UEA Cruise Report No. 6, 2000.
• Meredith, M.P., A.C. Naveira Garabato, D.P. Stevens, K.J. Heywood and R.J. Sanders (2000): Changes in the Deep and Bottom Waters of the Scotia Sea, 1995-1999. International WOCE Newsletter, 39, 15-19, 22-23.
• Meredith, M.P., A.C. Naveira Garabato, D.P. Stevens, K.J. Heywood and R.J. Sanders (2001): Deep and Bottom Waters in the Eastern Scotia Sea: Rapid Changes in Properties and Circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 2157-2168.
• Heywood, K.J., A.C. Naveira Garabato and D.P. Stevens (2002): High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean. Nature, 415, 1011-1014.
• Naveira Garabato, A.C., K.J. Heywood and D.P. Stevens (2002): Modification and Pathways of Southern Ocean Deep Waters in the Scotia Sea. Deep Sea Research I, 49, 681-705.
• Arhan, M., A.C. Naveira Garabato, K.J. Heywood and D.P. Stevens (2002): The overflow of Southern Ocean water at the Falkland Plateau. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 1914-1931.
• Naveira Garabato, A.C., E.L. McDonagh, D.P. Stevens, K.J. Heywood and R.J. Sanders (2002): On the export of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Weddell Sea. Deep Sea Research II, 49, 4715-4742.
• Well, R., W. Roether and D.P. Stevens (2003): An additional deep water mass in Drake Passage as revealed by 3He data, Deep Sea Research I, 50, 1079-1098.
• Naveira Garabato, A.C., D.P. Stevens and K.J. Heywood (2003): Water mass conversion, fluxes and mixing in the Scotia Sea diagnosed by an inverse model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33, 2565-2587.
• Naveira Garabato, A. C., K. L. Polzin, B. A. King, K. J. Heywood and M. Visbeck, 2004. Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean. Science, 303(5655), 210-213.
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• Heywood, K.J., A.C. Naveira Garabato, D.P. Stevens and R.D. Muench (2004): On the fate of the Antarctic Slope Front and the origin of the Weddell Front. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C06021, doi:10.1029/2003JC002053.

The following posters have been presented at various conferences. The format is ADOBE Acrobat 4.

• The ALBATROSS Project: Mass, Heat and Salt Exchanges during the passage of Deep Waters through the Scotia Sea (presented at UK Marine Science 2000)
• The overflow at the Falkland Plateau during the ALBATROSS cruise (presented at UK Marine Science 2000)
• Variability in the properties and circulation of water masses in Drake Passage and the Scotia Sea (presented at the WOCE variability conference 2000)
• The structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at Drake Passage (presented at EGS 2001)

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