The Ross Gyre is a clockwise-rotating water mass that lies north of the Ross Sea. This gyre is bounded to the north by the Polar Front of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and Pacific-Antarctic Ridge bathymetry, and to the south by the Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) and the Antarctic continental shelf. [1]

Jun 15, 2018 · The Ross Gyre is one of the main current systems of the Southern Ocean and conveys heat toward the cold continental shelves of the Antarctic Pacific sector, thus impacting the stability of diverse ice shelves.

Jan 22, 2024 · We show that Ross Gyre expansion, linked to wind and sea ice variability, increases poleward heat transport along the gyre’s eastern limb and the relative fraction of transport toward the...

Jun 26, 2019 · However, between the Ross Sea and the wider Southern Ocean lies the Ross Gyre. So we need to understand how the Ross Gyre controls exchange between the continent and the Southern Ocean. We use velocities from a numerical model to track virtual water parcels as they move into the gyre.

Sep 26, 2024 · The Ross Gyre is a cyclonic circulation system located south of the ACC in the southwestern Pacific Ocean bounded by the Antarctic continent to the south. The Ross Sea, on the shelf, extends under the glacial ice front and is an …

Mar 21, 2023 · Our results reveal a human-driven ocean warming that increases the continental shelf temperature in the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas by more than 1°C in only ∼30 years. This rapid warming is caused by the expansion of the Ross Gyre (RG), a …

Jun 21, 2017 · The cyclonic (clockwise) drift pattern, associated with the ASL centered over the northeast Ross Sea, is evident in all months between March and November (Figure 2). This oceanic circulation pattern is known as the Ross Sea Gyre. Along the Antarctic coast, the average ice drift is westward towards the Ross Sea.

This study describes the large-scale thermohaline structure and circulation patterns of the Ross Gyre and is based on a quality controlled data set including about 7,000 historical and modern hydrographic stations.

Ross Gyre (RG; Figure 1a), an important regional component of the Southern Ocean, which controls the proximity of the warm waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) to the RS...

Sep 26, 2024 · In this paper, we use a combination of observations and modeling studies to estimate the strength and variability of the Ross Gyre transport and investigate the relative contributions of the...