World’s oceans changing as currents show new patterns
Publication date
Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021
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Australian researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes made these findings using satellite data from 1993-2020 that can detect changes in ocean levels down to a few centimetres.
The Southern Ocean is changing the most, with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current strengthening about 5 per cent per decade over those years, according to the research published on Friday in Nature Climate Change.