The Amundsen Sea polynya hosts intense sea ice formation, but, due to the presence of relatively warm and salty modified Circumpolar Deep Water, the cold, brine-enriched water is not typically dense enough to sink to the deep ocean. A hydrographic survey of the Dotson Ice Shelf region in the Amundsen Sea using two ocean gliders identified and characterised subsurface lenses containing water with temperatures less than −1.70 °C...

Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) occupy large areas of the tropical subsurface oceans and substantially alter regional biogeochemical cycles. In particular, the removal rate of bio-available nitrogen (denitrification) from the water column in OMZs is disproportionate to their size. The Bay of Bengal is one of the strongest OMZs in the global oceans; however, variable sources of oxygen prevent the onset of large-scale denitrificatio...

Chlorophyll has long been known to influence air–sea gas exchange and CO2 drawdown. But chlorophyll also influences regional climate through its effect on solar radiation absorption and thus sea surface temperature (SST). In the Bay of Bengal, the effect of chlorophyll on SST has been demonstrated to have a significant impact on the Indian summer (southwest) monsoon. However, little is known about the drivers and impacts of ch...