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Cold wind warms Southern Ocean

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Well-mixed water around 500 m depth in the Southern Ocean has been warming. Now research reveals how strengthening wind increases the volume of the warm water.

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Fig. 1: Southern Ocean transect of tracer chlorofluorocarbon-11 (CFC-11).

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