@InProceedings{SantiniSouMueWaiHin:2012:HyChBr,
               author = "Santini, Marcelo and Souza, Ronald and Muelbert, M{\^o}nica and 
                         Wainer, Ilana and Hindell, Mark",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Hydrographic characteristics of the Bransfield Strait (Antarctic) 
                         collected by a southern elephant seal between February and August 
                         2008",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2012",
         organization = "SCAR Open Science Conference, 32. and COMNAP AGN, 24.",
             abstract = "In this paper we present variations of the thermohaline structure 
                         across the Bransfield (BS). We used a data set obtained by 
                         CTD-SRDLs fixed in southern elephant seal (SES, Mirounga leonina) 
                         between 07 February and 17 August 2008, consists of 538 profiles 
                         with an average de 566.9 +/- 239.3 m and transmitted at a rate of 
                         2.78 times a day. Although BS is one of Southern Ocean regions 
                         most historically sampled, here we have the opportunity to show 
                         seasonal changes of the oceanic vertical structure that is driven 
                         mainly by mechanical forcing and sea and land ice cover. This fact 
                         is extremely important especially in a climate change scenario, 
                         where the polar regions, due to its sensitivity, require 
                         continuous monitoring. The ranges of potential temperature (.), 
                         salinity (S) and potential density (s.) are observed between -1.88 
                         and 1.86° C, 34.00 34.79 psu and 27.26 27.99, respectively. As 
                         observed in previous studies the Bransfield Strait Water (0 > . 
                         and 34.45 < S <34.6) is dominant at depths greater than 100 m, the 
                         Circumpolar Deep Water is observed only for a short period at the 
                         end of July, probably due to an insertion between Livingston and 
                         Greenwich Islands where the SES remained on this occasion. Surface 
                         waters (~0 150 m) there is a reduction of potential temperatures 
                         of about 3° C between the beginning and end of the sampling 
                         period, this is mainly due to seasonal changes of air temperature. 
                         The opposite occurs with the salinity and potential density, which 
                         due to the release of salt for the formation of sea ice causes an 
                         increase in these values.",
                label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTIC-GOV-BR",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "santini_hydrographic.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "07 maio 2024"
}