🌊 Circumpolar Deep Water in the Southern Ocean is shifting poleward (~1.26 km/yr), increasing warm water near Antarctica.
Boosting heat flux to ice shelves, leading to increased basal melt and sea-level rise.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Circumpolar Deep Water is increasing in thickness towards Antarctica in the upper 2000 m of the Southern Ocean, according to analyses of ship-based observations combined with machine learning modellin...