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The application of the extended Optimum MultiParameter analysis (OMP) to a large dataset collected during four oceanographic cruises in 1994-2001 was used to obtain a quantitative description of the water masses on the continental shelf and to analyse their circulation.
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The characteristics of AASW (Antarctic Surface Water), CDW (Circumpolar Deep Water), MCDW (Modified Circumpolar Deep Water), LSSW (Low Salinity Shelf Water), DISW (Deep Ice Shelf Water) and HSSW (High Salinity Shelf Water) were defined. Their role in the ventilation of the deeper layer of the continental shelf and in the water mass exchange with the Southern Ocean was analysed.
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This page is a summary of: An optimum multiparameter mixing analysis of the shelf waters in
the Ross Sea, Antarctic Science, February 2003, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s095410200300110x.
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