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An oceanic ‘fast-lane’ for climate change

APR 26, 2010
Physics Today
Nature : Thanks to extensive, long-term monitoring, a team from Japan and Australia has measured the properties of a deep ocean current that flows northward from Antarctica. The current is important both for the current climate, because of its unexpected vigor, and for the future climate, because disrupting it could bring about major changes.
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