A climate window in the Southern Ocean

John Marshall and Kevin Speer, a professor of physical oceanography at Florida State University, have published a paper in Nature Geoscience - Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling - in which they review past work, examine the Southern Ocean’s influence on climate and draw up a new schematic for ocean circulation. 

“There’s a lot of carbon and heat in the interior ocean,” says John Marshall, “The Southern Ocean is the window by which the interior of the ocean connects to the atmosphere above.”

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