Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Southern Ocean in-situ temperature trends over 25 years emerge from interannual variability

  • Matthis Auger,
  • Rosemary Morrow,
  • Elodie Kestenare,
  • Jean-Baptiste Sallée,
  • Rebecca Cowley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20781-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The Southern Ocean takes up the most heat and carbon, yet because of its remote and harsh location, it remains relatively sparsely measured. Here the authors use a 25 year temperature series which shows a clear, long term trend in subsurface warming that emerges from interannual variability.