Deep Ocean Currents and the Climate Puzzle
New research into thermohaline circulation reveals unexpected patterns in deep water formation, complicating our understanding of how oceans regulate global temperatures.
Beneath the sunlit surface waters that most of us picture when we think of the ocean lies a vast, cold, slow-moving world. The deep ocean, below a thousand meters, contains the majority of our planet's water and plays a critical role in regulating climate. Understanding how it moves is one of the great challenges of earth science.
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