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Warming and freshening trends

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While anthropogenic influence on global climate is clear, human impact on the Southern Ocean has been difficult to pin down. A new detection and attribution study achieves just that.

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Fig. 1: Deployment of an instrument that measures temperature, salinity and depth in the Southern Ocean.

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  1. ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate Extremes, Hobart, Australia

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff

  2. Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Australia

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff

  3. IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff

  4. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Australia

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