| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥10,530,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,430,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Antarctic continental shelf is an important region in that it provides very dense water, which is one of the sources of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) that fills the global abyssal ocean. Recently freshening of AABW is reported and the causes are suspected to be on the Antarctic margin. This study aims to clarify the changes in oceanic properties in the Antarctic margin, especially based on in-situ hydrographic surveys including a noble tracer to detect continental ice melt component. For the Ross Sea shelf, the observed freshening corresponded to the basal warming in the West Antarctic shelf. For Adelie Depression off Adelie Land coast, both sea ice production and land-ice melt could change the shelf water properties, which can affect the properties of bottom water. Hence it was proposed that ice condition changes can affect the overturning circulation originated in the south.
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