New study explains how winter sea ice and melting ice shelves control the formation of deep ocean water in Antarctica.

An investigation into one of four places where a dense, cold type of water is known to exist has sparked alarm. Find out more ...

Anhydrous production time increases with growing reservoir porosity. The relationship between porosity and the anhydrous time is linear. Coning reduces oil production as water enters the perforation ...

In the cold depths along the seafloor, Antarctic Bottom Waters are part of a global circulatory system, supplying waters rich in oxygen, carbon, and nutrients to the world’s oceans. Over the last ...

Bottom water dynamics and contourite depositional systems represent a critical area of research in deep-sea sedimentology and oceanography. These studies address the interplay between the continuous, ...

Researchers in Australia and Japan have offered our best view yet of a super-fast flow of water known to emerge from the depths below Antarctica. This flow, known as the Antarctic Bottom Water, feeds ...

The western South Atlantic's coldest, deepest layer, called the Antarctic Bottom Water, originates in the waters surrounding Antarctica. In the subtropics, most of this current joins water in the ...

With help from seals, scientists have discovered a new source for the coldest, deepest water in the ocean. Instruments glued to seals' heads tracked Antarctic Bottom Water flowing down deep canyons ...

The formation of deep water, which is an important component of the climate system, takes place in only a few parts of the ocean: In the subpolar North Atlantic and in a few places in the Southern ...

The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean has been mysteriously disappearing at a high rate over the last few decades, scientists have found. This mass of water ...