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://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80761/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80761/1/Published_Version.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 and ocean surface stress curl are rev...