Antarctic gyre may refer to any of the three ocean currents and gyres within the Southern Ocean:
Antarctic Circumpolar Current, an ocean current circulating around Antarctica
Ross Gyre, an oceanic gyre in the Ross Sea
Weddell Gyre, an oceanic gyre in the Weddell Sea
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Antarcticgyre may refer to any of the three ocean currents and gyres within the Southern Ocean: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, an ocean current circulating...
surface height and cyclonic geostrophic currents in subpolar gyres. Wind-driven ocean gyres are asymmetrical, with stronger flows on their western boundary...
upwelling does probably occur. The Ross Gyre and Weddell Gyre are two gyres that exist within the Southern Ocean. The gyres are located in the Ross Sea and Weddell...
kilometres it makes up ~10 % of the Earth's ocean surface. The gyre, as with Earth's other four gyres, contains an area with elevated concentrations of pelagic...
Gyre is one of three gyres that exists within the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, the others being the Weddell Gyre and Balleny Gyre. The Ross Gyre...
The Weddell Gyre is one of the two gyres that exist within the Southern Ocean. The gyre is formed by interactions between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current...
the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Like other oceanic gyres, it collects vast amounts of floating debris as a garbage patch. South of this gyre is the...
Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica. An alternative...
anti-cyclonic southern subtropical gyre. The South Atlantic central water originates in this gyre, while Antarctic Intermediate Water originates in the...
133°16′41″W / 78.73417°S 133.27806°W / -78.73417; -133.27806 The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers...
Flow over the shelf below the surface layer consists of two anticyclonic gyres connected by a central cyclonic flow. The flow is considerable in spring...
Gyre – Subtropical gyre in the south Atlantic Ocean South Pacific Gyre – Major circulating system of ocean currents Weddell Gyre – One of two gyres within...
List of Antarctic ice shelves Nimrod Expedition Retreat of glaciers since 1850 Ross Embayment Ross Gyre Steershead Crevasses West Antarctic Rift System...
a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. Unlike all other regions called seas, it has no land boundaries. It is distinguished...
Pacific gyre was made in early 2011 and its existence was confirmed in mid-2017. The discovery was made after a research voyage made by the 5 Gyres Institute...
and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost...
Current, though also slower. It is a cold current. Antarctic Circumpolar Current Ocean current Oceanic gyres Physical oceanography Scott Guhin; Pallav Ray;...
in the Agulhas Retroflection due to shear interactions with the strong Antarctic Circumpolar Current, also known as the "West Wind Drift" despite referring...
determined to be unidirectional from fin to blue whales. Comparison with Antarctic blue whales showed that this hybridization began after the northern and...
change, as the melting of the ice sheets dilutes salty flows such as the Antarctic bottom water. Either one could outright collapse to a much weaker state...
transport piles up water between the trade winds and westerlies in subtropical gyres, or near the shore during coastal downwelling. The increased mass of surface...
88722; 55.07500 (British Antarctic Survey-accredited Pole of Inaccessibility), updated that year by the British Antarctic Survey. The team continued...
greater than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi). The only current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice sheets are bigger than ice...
River delta on the Pacific side of the Andes. In the ocean, the subtropical gyres north and south of the equator are regions in which the nutrients required...
strong Antarctic Circumpolar Current. In the northern hemisphere the land masses prevent this and the ocean circulation is broken into smaller gyres in the...
to the Indian subtropical gyre and cooling and contributing to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). The Sub-Antarctic Mode Water acts as a carbon...
isolated the Southern Ocean by separating it from the warm subtropical gyres to the north. During the mid-Tertiary period, a species crash in the Southern...
current is not nearly as rapid as depicted in the film. Ocean current Oceanic gyres Physical oceanography Talley, Lynne. Descriptive physical oceanography:...
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