The Antarctic Ocean

Author : George A. Knox
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420005134

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Biology of the Southern Ocean, Second Edition by George A. Knox Pdf

First published in 1993, The Biology of the Southern Ocean has been referred to as international research at its best and an invaluable reference. Drawing on the considerable volume of information published in the last ten years, this second edition retains the format that made the first edition a popular bestseller, while updating the information with the latest research results available. The book begins with a description of the physico-chemical environment and, in a logical sequence, covers phytoplankton and primary production, the sea ice microbial communities and the secondary consumers, the zooplankton. The author includes an extended chapter on the biology and ecology of Antarctic krill that highlights its central position in the Southern Ocean food web. A series of chapters consider the higher consumers, nekton (with an emphasis on cephalopods) fish, seals, whales, and seabirds. The following chapters explore selected ecosystem components; the benthic communities, life beneath the fast ice and ice shelves, recent advances in understanding decomposition processes, and the role of bacteria and protozoa. The author synthesizes ecosystem dynamics, with an emphasis on the pelagic ecosystem. He covers resource exploitation, the impact of such exploitation on the marine ecosystem, and the problems involved in the management of the living resources. His epilogue summarizes the extent to which our understanding of the functioning of the Antarctic marine ecosystem has changed in the last 50 years; for example, there has been a dramatic change in our view of krill and its role in the Southern Ocean marine ecosystem. The book concludes with the statement that research carried out under the AGCS Programme and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) will continue to provide critical information on the functioning of Antarctic marine ecosystems. Intended for all those with an ongoing interest in Antarctic research, conservation, and management, this volume represents one of the most authoritative resources in the field as it covers all aspects of this important marine ecosystem.

Author : Lynn M. Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1559161388

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The Antarctic Ocean by Lynn M. Stone Pdf

Discusses thefeatures of the Antarctic Ocean and of the plants and animals which inhabit it.

Author : Russell Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Antarctic Ocean
ISBN : MSU:31293036606816

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The Antarctic Ocean by Russell Owen Pdf

Author : Jonah Young
Publisher : Ice Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Southern Ocean by Jonah Young Pdf

A large body of recent oceanographic research has shown that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), an ocean current that flows from west to east around Antarctica, plays a crucial role in global ocean circulation. The region where the cold waters of the ACC meet and mingle with the warmer waters of the north defines a distinct border - the Antarctic Convergence - which fluctuates with the seasons, but which encompasses a discrete body of water and a unique ecologic region. The Convergence concentrates nutrients, which promotes marine plant life, and which, in turn, allows for a greater abundance of animal life. In 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization delimited the waters within the Convergence as a fifth world ocean - the Southern Ocean - by combining the southern portions of the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. The Southern Ocean extends from the coast of Antarctica north to 60 degrees south latitude, which coincides with the Antarctic Treaty Limit and which approximates the extent of the Antarctic Convergence. As such, the Southern Ocean is now the fourth largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean, but larger than the Arctic Ocean).

Author : Anne Ylvisaker
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736814205

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The Antarctic Ocean by Anne Ylvisaker Pdf

Introduces the southernmost ocean and provides an activity for measuring the coldness of the ice.

Author : Juniata Rogers
Publisher : Amicus Ink
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Antarctic Ocean
ISBN : 1622434374

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The Southern Ocean by Juniata Rogers Pdf

Discusses the physical characteristics, natural resources, and plant and animal life of the Southern Ocean, formerly called the Antarctic Ocean.

Author : Joy McCann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226622415

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Wild Sea by Joy McCann Pdf

“The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessible part of the planetary ocean, the only part that flows around Earth unimpeded by any landmass. It is notorious amongst sailors for its tempestuous winds and hazardous fog and ice. Yet it is a difficult ocean to pin down. Its southern boundary, defined by the icy continent of Antarctica, is constantly moving in a seasonal dance of freeze and thaw. To the north, its waters meet and mingle with those of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans along a fluid boundary that defies the neat lines of a cartographer.” So begins Joy McCann’s Wild Sea, the remarkable story of the world’s remote Southern, or Antarctic, Ocean. Unlike the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Oceans with their long maritime histories, little is known about the Southern Ocean. This book takes readers beyond the familiar heroic narratives of polar exploration to explore the nature of this stormy circumpolar ocean and its place in Western and Indigenous histories. Drawing from a vast archive of charts and maps, sea captains’ journals, whalers’ log books, missionaries’ correspondence, voyagers’ letters, scientific reports, stories, myths, and her own experiences, McCann embarks on a voyage of discovery across its surfaces and into its depths, revealing its distinctive physical and biological processes as well as the people, species, events, and ideas that have shaped our perceptions of it. The result is both a global story of changing scientific knowledge about oceans and their vulnerability to human actions and a local one, showing how the Southern Ocean has defined and sustained southern environments and people over time. Beautifully and powerfully written, Wild Sea will raise a broader awareness and appreciation of the natural and cultural history of this little-known ocean and its emerging importance as a barometer of planetary climate change.

Author : Eugene G. Morozov,Mikhail V. Flint,Vassily A. Spiridonov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030789275

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Antarctic Peninsula Region of the Southern Ocean by Eugene G. Morozov,Mikhail V. Flint,Vassily A. Spiridonov Pdf

The book is based on results from the Russian expedition in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin in the northern part of the Weddell Sea, as well as on the review of earlier research in the region. The main goal of the research was to collect the newest data and study the physical properties and ecology of this key region of the Southern Ocean. Data analysis is supplemented with numerical modeling of the atmosphere-ocean interaction and circulation in the adjacent region, including research on rogue waves. The focus of the study was the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, currents and water properties in the Bransfield Strait and Antarctic Sound, properties of seawater, currents, ecosystem and biological communities in the Powell Basin of the northwestern Weddell Sea, and their variations. An attempt is made to reveal the role of various components of the Antarctic environment in the formation of biological productivity and maintenance of the Antarctic krill population. This is especially important as in the last decades the Antarctic environment has experienced significant changes related to the global climatic trends.

Author : Kate A Furlong
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616139230

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Southern Ocean by Kate A Furlong Pdf

Provides information about the newly delineated ocean that surrounds the continent of Antarctica.

Author : Bruno David,Thomas Saucède
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780081004852

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Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean by Bruno David,Thomas Saucède Pdf

The Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent is vast, in particular, its history, its isolation, and climate, making it a unique "laboratory case" for experimental evolution, adaptation and ecology. Its evolutionary history of adaptation provide a wealth of information on the functioning of the biosphere and its potential. The Southern Ocean is the result of a history of nearly 40 million years marked by the opening of the Straits south of Australia and South America and intense cooling. The violence of its weather, its very low temperatures, the formation of huge ice-covered areas, as its isolation makes the Southern Ocean a world apart. This book discusses the consequences for the evolution, ecology and biodiversity of the region, including endemism, slowed metabolism, longevity, gigantism, and its larval stages; features which make this vast ocean a "natural laboratory" for exploring the ecological adaptive processes, scalable to work in extreme environmental conditions. Today, biodiversity of the Southern Ocean is facing global change, particularly in regional warming and acidification of water bodies. Unable to migrate further south, how will she cope, if any, to visitors from the North? Designed for curious readers to discover the immense ocean surrounding the most isolated and most inhospitable continent on the planet. Describes the Southern Ocean facing biodiversification due to global change Authored by scientists with experience of expeditions to the Southern Ocean

Author : Dietrich Sahrhage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642737244

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Antarctic Ocean and Resources Variability by Dietrich Sahrhage Pdf

During the intensification of research activities in the Southern Ocean in recent years, both at national levels and through international cooperation in such projects as BIOMASS with its FIBEX and SIBEX phases, the need was felt increasingly for closer collaboration between biologists, meteorologists, and oceanographers in the study of the interaction between the atmospheric forces, the water masses, and the living resources. Better knowledge in this regard is not only of scientific interest but also of practical importance, especially for the management of the resources and the protection of the Antarctic marine ecosystem. As a follow-up on a recommendation by the IOC Program Group for the Southern Oceans made in March 1983, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission organized a meeting of experts on oceanography related to the dynamics of the Antarctic ecosystems. During this meeting, held in Kiel, Federal Republic of Ger many, in May 1984, biologists and oceanographers involved in BIOMASS activities met with the oceanographers of SCOR Working Group 74 to discuss ways and means for additional physical and chemical observations in the oceanographic research within BIOMASS. It was the time when large fluctuations in the distribution of krill with subsequent detrimental effects on predator species dependent on krill had just been observed, and the question arose whether this was possibly the result of changes in the Antarctic water circulation.

Author : Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Antarctic Ocean
ISBN : 9781406287530

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Southern Ocean by Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury Pdf

What's at the bottom of the Southern Ocean? Which rare animals are found in the Ross Sea? What do people use krill for? Raise the anchor and set sail on a journey round the five oceans of the world. Read maps and interpret simple map keys to explore famous places, islands and busy ports. Learn about extreme weather and the valuable resources the oceans provide. Dive deep to explore the ocean floor and the remarkable plants and animals that thrive there. Wrap up warm for the Southern Ocean! Find out what scientists research there and why tourists visit for a holiday Explore the seas of the Southern Ocean and learn interesting facts along the way.

Author : Ofer Gon,Phillip C. Heemstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fishes
ISBN : UCSD:31822005692504

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Fishes of the Southern Ocean by Ofer Gon,Phillip C. Heemstra Pdf

Author : Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781681031590

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Southern Ocean by Emily Rose Oachs Pdf

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, was not officially recognized as a distinct body of water until the year 2000. Krill, lantern fish, and whales can all be found in this oceanÕs chilly waters. Explore the Southern OceanÕs climate, currents, and sea life in this engaging title for beginning readers.

Author : Christopher C. Joyner
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780792318231

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Antarctica and the Law of the Sea by Christopher C. Joyner Pdf

This survey of maritime law as it applies to the Antarctic continent and surrounding seas, includes biogeography, sovereignty, offshore jurisdiction, the continental shelf, environmental protection and conservation, and the legal status of ice shelves, sea ice, icebergs and ice islands.