Huge, wet and mysterious: new climate study probes the world's largest ocean current
Published on the 03 Mar 2006
The vast icy ocean current that circles around Antarctica is so huge that it carries 100 times more water than all the world's rivers combined, yet its influence on the world's climate is barely understood.
Professor England, an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow with the UNSW School of Mathematics, is working on a new study with Dr Ann Marie Treguier, from Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans and Dr Steve Rintoul from CSIRO marine and atmospheric research ... full story