The Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution An important feature of Beaufort Gyre is the low salinity lens that has formed at the surface due to the anticyclonic (clockwise) wind stress on the ocean that drives convergent surface water flow and in turn, the anticyclonic Beaufort Gyre
Waiting on the next freshwater flush - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The gyre is a massive clockwise ocean circulation pattern in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska The currents swirl around as if contained in a bowl about 1000 kilometers across, she says However, something is amiss with the Beaufort Gyre
A ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ in the Arctic - Woods Hole Oceanographic . . . In a 2018 study, scientists have found that the amount of heat in the trapped warm layer in the Beaufort Gyre, a major Arctic Ocean circulation system north of Alaska, has doubled over the past 30 years And, if the temperatures continue to spike, it could eventually spell trouble for the ice above
2. 7 Flow Reversals and Recirculation The typical gyre geometry as seen in cross-section and plan view is sketched in Figure 2 7 2 The region of closed streamlines lies between two right-wall stagnation points at y=y1 and y=y2 The streamline joining the two points and located a distance wg from the right wall will be called the stagnation streamline The interface elevation along this contour must remain the same as that along