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Sea-ice-driven shallow overturning

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Conversion of Antarctic circumpolar upwelling waters to less dense water has mainly been attributed to surface heat fluxes. An analysis of water-mass transformation shows that the dominant process is the formation of sea ice near Antarctica and its melt offshore.

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Figure 1: A view of sea ice from the RV Aurora Australis.

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  1. Nathaniel L. Bindoff and William R. Hobbs are at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, UNSW Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia and at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Private Bag 80, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia,

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  2. Nathaniel L. Bindoff is also at IMAS, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS 7005, Australia and at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia,

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