If the sediment is dominated by
species, which live in the sea ice, then the Polynya and the glacier tongue were absent.
By chance, the formation of the giant Polynya occurred in 2016 when the floats were
still present in the region to capture the event.
In any given year you could have several of these
things happen, but unless you get them all, then you don't get a Polynya.”.
We thought this large hole in the sea ice-- known as a Polynya-- was something that was rare,
maybe a process that had gone extinct.
This glacier forms
one of these fingers of ice reaching out from the continent and the Polynya in its lee can be up to 6,000 square kilometers.
This glacier forms
one of these fingers of ice reaching out from the continent and the Polynya in its lee can be up to 6,000 square kilometres.
This deep carbon reservoir
has been trapped for hundreds of years, and in a Polynya it can be aerated the surface by this really
violent mixing," Campbell said.
This deep reservoir of carbon has
been locked away for hundreds of years, and in a Polynya it might get ventilated at the surface through this really
violent mixing,” Campbell says.
This deep reservoir of carbon has
been locked away for hundreds of years, and in a Polynya it might get ventilated at the surface through this really
violent mixing,” Campbell said.