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Nature 449, 34-35 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449034a; Published online 5 September 2007

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Physical oceanography: Super spin in the southern seas

Dean Roemmich1

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The southern oceans are generally considered as isolated systems, much like their northern counterparts. But a combination of historical data and new density profiles suggests that they may be connected on a global scale.

All Earth's major oceans contain a subtropical gyre, a vast circulation system spanning the entire ocean basin at mid-latitudes. These gyres have the crucial role in the climate system of exporting excess tropical heat polewards1.

  1. Dean Roemmich is at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0230, USA.
    Email: droemmich@ucsd.edu

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