The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) is a coupled ocean/atmosphere wave that circles the Southern Ocean in approximately eight years at 6–8 cm/s (2.4–3...

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...

The wave moves eastward in the direction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Among the most important ocean currents are the: Antarctic Circumpolar Current...

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Shetland Islands (Antarctic Treaty System) Geography portal Anthony de la Roché Antarctic Antarctic Circle Antarctic Circumpolar Wave Polar front Southern...

ocean-atmosphere interaction He is known for his work on the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave. White, Warren; Walker, A. E. (1974). "Time and depth scales of...

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are unusually large and unpredictable...

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Antarctic Bottom Water, a very cold, highly saline, dense water that forms under sea ice. Another is Circumpolar Deep Water, a mixture of Antarctic Bottom...

the Pacific sector of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Much of the energy that is dissipated through internal wave breaking (around 20% of the...

Pacific and subtropical southern Atlantic, and linked with the Antarctic circumpolar wave. It has also been suggested that the Subtropical Indian Ocean...

The Arctic tropospheric polar vortex A circumpolar vortex, or simply polar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air; polar vortices encircle both...

giant genomes. Antarctic krill has a circumpolar distribution, being found throughout the Southern Ocean, and as far north as the Antarctic Convergence....

00512.x. S2CID 86399142. Fischer, H. (2004). "Prevalence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave over the last two millenia recorded in Dronning Maud Land ice"...

48°S in the Atlantic Ocean, defines the northern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (or ACC). The ACC is the most important ocean current in...

1029/2001GL013465. Connolley, W. M. (2002). "Long-term variation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave". Journal of Geophysical Research. 108 (C4): 8076. Bibcode:2002JGRC...

produced by the meeting of opposing currents Antarctic Circumpolar Wave – A coupled ocean/atmosphere wave that circles the Southern Ocean eastward in approximately...

carcinophaga), also known as the krill-eater seal, is a true seal with a circumpolar distribution around the coast of Antarctica. They are medium- to large-sized...

Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio Current, the Agulhas Current, and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, are all approximately in geostrophic balance and are examples...

(Leptonychotes weddellii) is a relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica. The Weddell seal was discovered...

dolphins, they use echolocation to find food. The range is circumpolar from close to the Antarctic pack ice to about 45°S. The northernmost confirmed sightings...

inhabits a variety of islands and shores in the Southern Pacific and the Antarctic Oceans. Its name stems from the narrow black band under its head, which...

period of global warming in the early Pliocene which disrupted the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and created local pockets of upwelling, facilitating speciation...

past Tasmania into the Indian Ocean Currents of the Southern Ocean Antarctic Circumpolar Current – Ocean current that flows clockwise from west to east around...

require calm or moderate wave action in order to settle and successfully attach to substrates. Durvillaea antarctica has a circumpolar distribution between...

White, Warren B.; Cherry, Neil J. (1999). "Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave upon New Zealand temperature and precipitation during autumn–winter"...

interactions in the Southern Ocean between waters of the Antarctic margin, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and intervening gyres with a strong seasonal...

surface height gradient this creates a jet or current, such as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This current as part of a baroclinically unstable system...

000 sq mi). Since the 1970s, the polar Southern Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has freshened and stratified, likely a result of anthropogenic...

Glover of the Natural History Museum, London correctly suggested the Antarctic Circumpolar Current could preserve the wreck on the seabed by keeping wood-boring...