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: 2018
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Curl; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/421907/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/421907/1/RossGyreAM.pdf; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/421907/2/RossGyre.pdf

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 and ocean surface stress curl are rev...