This literature survey concentrates on studies of oceanic and atmospheric physics of the Southern Ocean and places special emphasis on the Weddell Sea. The latter region has been chosen as the main working area for the present and forthcoming German marine research in Antarctica. Research topics surveyed include: marine atmosphere; sea surface heat exchange; sea ice; Antarctic Intermediate Water; Weddell-Scotia Confluence; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; bottom topography; Antarctic pressure trough; Weddell polynya; Weddell gyre; wind influence; mixing processes; and double diffusive convection among many others. -from Current Antarctic Literature