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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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Bindoff, N.L. Warming and freshening trends. Nature Geosci 11, 803–804 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0239-9

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