ROSS SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ross Sea mean? 

• ROSS SEA (noun)
  The noun ROSS SEA has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica

  Familiarity information: ROSS SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSS SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Holonyms ("Ross Sea" is a part of...):

Antarctic continent; Antarctica (an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep)

 Context examples 

The study comes out of the ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year effort to collect geologic, oceanographic and glaciological data in the Ross Sea region.

(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)

This area, known as the Ross Sea Polynya, absorbs solar heat quickly in summer and this solar heat source is clearly influencing melting in the ice shelf cavity.

(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The pact for the protected area in the Ross Sea covers more than 1.55 million square kilometers, about the size of Britain, Germany and France combined.

(Deal Reached to Create World's Largest Marine Reserve in Antarctica, VOA News)

Seroussi and Ivins' simulations using a heat flow higher than 150 milliwatts per square meter showed too much melting to be compatible with the space-based data, except in one location: an area inland of the Ross Sea known for intense flows of water.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

The Ross Sea - home to penguins, seals, Antarctic toothfish, whales and huge numbers of krill - a staple food for many species - is one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world.

(Deal Reached to Create World's Largest Marine Reserve in Antarctica, VOA News)