Variability of the Ross Gyre, Southern Ocean: drivers and responses revealed by satellite altimetry

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Dotto, Tiago S., Naveira Garabato, Alberto, Bacon, Sheldon, Tsamados, Michel, Holland, Paul R., Hooley, Jack, Frajka-Williams, Eleanor, Ridout, Andy, Meredith, Michael P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Curl; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520353/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520353/1/Dotto_et_al-2018-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078607

Year‐round variability in the Ross Gyre (RG), Antarctica, during 2011‐2015, is derived using radar altimetry. The RG is characterized by a bounded recirculating component, and a westward ‘throughflow’ to the south. Two modes of variability of the sea‐surface height (SSH) and ocean surface stress cur...