Sentence examples for circumpolar ocean from inspiring English sources

Within the Antarctic Convergence zone, the cold, dense surface waters of the circumpolar ocean sink and flow northward, thus creating a major meridional circulation system.

Secondly, the climate of Antarctica was initiated by, and relies on, the isolation provided by the circumpolar ocean to prevent large-scale disintegration of the ice cap.

Unlike the Northern Hemisphere (Northern Atlantic and Pacific Ocean) where land masses provide a barrier which hinders the connection to other ocean basins, the Southern Hemisphere is open to the propagation of southern swell towards all ocean basins due to the fact that a circumpolar oceanic zone free of land barriers connects them together [25].

Positive SAM is associated with increased westerly winds over the circumpolar Southern Ocean (Marshall et al. 2006), with an associated reduction in westward oceanic transport in the Antarctic Peninsula region and an increase in transport from the Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia (Renner et al. 2012).

It suggests that the Southern Ocean Circumpolar current prevents warmer water from reaching the continent and that icy winds help the formation of sea ice persist.

Only the Antarctic Circumpolar Current reaches the ocean floor.

In the framework of the second phase of the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II), we present an analysis of the representation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation (MOC) in a suite of seventeen global ocean sea ice models.

The southern annular mode (SAM) in the atmosphere and the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC) in the ocean play decisive roles in the climatic system of the mid- to high-latitude southern hemisphere.

Albatrosses nesting in the Southern Ocean often undertake circumpolar trips between breeding seasons.

The smaller group is found in a circumpolar band in the Southern Ocean from about 20 to 65°S.

Connecting the major Southern Hemisphere oceans, the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC) plays a decisive role in the mid- to high-latitude SH climate and its variability (e.g., Nowlin and Klinck 1986; Olbers et al. 2004).