Decadal trends in air‐sea CO2 exchange in the Ross Sea (Antarctica) [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 Highly productive Antarctic shelf systems, like the Ross Sea, play important roles in regional carbon budgets, but the drivers of local variations are poorly quantified.
Alessandro Tagliabue, Kevin R. Arrigo
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The role of tides in bottom water export from the western Ross Sea [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Approximately 25% of Antarctic Bottom Water has its origin as dense water exiting the western Ross Sea, but little is known about what controls the release of dense water plumes from the Drygalski Trough.
Melissa M. Bowen +6 more
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Do circum-Antarctic species exist in peracarid Amphipoda? A case study in the genus Epimeria Costa, 1851 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Epimeriidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2009 The amphipod genus Epimeria is species rich in the Southern Ocean and at present eight of its 19 species are reported with circum-Antarctic distributions.
Anne Loerz +3 more
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Opposing oceanic and atmospheric ENSO influences on the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2006 Here we discuss the cause and effect of opposing atmospheric and oceanic ENSO forcings in the Ross Sea, that lead to a net warming in the eastern Ross Sea and a net cooling in the western Ross Sea during El Niño years.
N. A. N. Bertler +5 more
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Energetic plumes over the western Ross Sea continental slope [PDF]
, 2004 Rapid descent of dense Drygalski Trough (western Ross Sea, Antarctica) shelf water over the continental slope, within 100 to 250 m thick benthic plumes, is described. Speeds of up to 1.0 m/s are recorded flowing at an average angle of 35° to the isobaths,
Alejandro Orsi +18 more
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Springtime winds drive Ross Sea ice variability and change in the following autumn [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Antarctic sea ice extent continues to increase, with autumn sea ice advances in the western Ross Sea particularly anomalous. Here, based on analysis of independent datasets, the authors show that springtime zonal winds in the high latitude South Pacific ...
Marika M. Holland +3 more
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Evidence for large-scale climate forcing of dense shelf water variability in the Ross Sea [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAntarctic Bottom Water (AABW), which supplies the lower limb of the thermohaline circulation, originates from dense shelf water (DSW) forming in Antarctic polynyas.
Zhaoru Zhang +11 more
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Rebound of shelf water salinity in the Ross Sea [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Ross Sea Bottom Water, a major source of Antarctic Bottom Water, has experienced significant freshening in recent decades. Here the authors use 23 years of summer measurements to document temporal variability in the salinity of the Ross Sea High Salinity
Pasquale Castagno +7 more
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Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are top marine predators occurring globally. In Antarctic waters, five ecotypes have been described, with Type C being the smallest form of killer whale known.
Rebecca Wellard +3 more
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Iron limitation of a springtime bacterial and phytoplankton community in the Ross Sea: implications for vitamin B12 nutrition [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2011 The Ross Sea is home to some of the largest phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean. Primary production in this system has previously been shown to be iron limited in the summer and periodically iron and vitamin B12 colimited.
Erin M. Bertrand +6 more
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