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Sea-ice-driven shallow overturning
Bindoff, N.L.; Hobbs, W.R. (2016). Sea-ice-driven shallow overturning. Nature Geoscience 9(8): 569-570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2766
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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    Marine/Coastal
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  • Bindoff, N.L.
  • Hobbs, W.R.
Abstract
    Conversion of Antarctic circumpolar upwelling waters to less dense water has mainly been attributed to surface heat fluxes. An analysis of water-mass transformation shows that the dominant process is the formation of sea ice near Antarctica and its melt offshore.
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