🌊 Southern Ocean
@_SouthernOcean
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Hardest working ocean on Earth you’ve never heard of. Doing the heavy lifting to suck up carbon and heat, and cool the planet. You're welcome.
Joined December 2022
Some people consider me cold and remote. But I’m just getting warmed up. Stay with me folks. Please follow and like.
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Attention: will the owner of a small blue planet with tectonic plates please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating.
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💪🏽the youngest ocean with cleanest air and cloudiest skies.
The @_SouthernOcean is renowned for having the cleanest air on🌏. But until now scientists haven't understood why🤔. New research in @Nature_NPJ shows how clouds & rain play a crucial role in "scrubbing" the air clean. @Nasim_Aln @SiemsSt @MonashUni. ➡️
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🩺 Feel my pulse.
1/5🩵 "The rhythmic expansion and contraction of sea ice is just like a heartbeat. Just as a change in our heartbeat affects our whole body, a change to sea ice around Antarctica affects the whole world." — animated satellite data 1978-2024 by @ACCESS_NRI, from @NSIDC via @NASA
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I’m feeling better investigated thank you, but have so much more to reveal.
Long lap: “like driving between Sydney and Perth three times, at a max speed of 20 kmh.” An epic #MISO voyage of 60 days and 12000 km on @CSIRO #RVInvestigator lands one of the most comprehensive datasets ever collected from the Southern Ocean. ➡️
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“It looks as though the Southern Ocean is shifting gear but we don’t yet know where it’s heading and what that means for us. That’s where our research comes in.” — Nathan Bindoff of @Ant_Partnership at @UTAS_ in @GuardianAus .
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We’re racing to keep up with the pace of change as a future arrives faster than we predicted
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🥵 not to mention 75% of the excess heat from your CO2 emissions 🫵.
🌊 Did you know that the Southern Ocean is responsible for 50% of the oceanic uptake of CO2. 🌊 Major changes in phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean are linked to drivers of climate change, a study published in @NatureClimate shows.👇🏻. #NatureAfrica.
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RT @Ant_Partnership: 1⃣.What makes the best address for an emperor penguin colony? Each year they return to the same areas of landfast ice….
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my mob.
🌊🌏 "The Southern Ocean . keeps our planet liveable. However, despite the efforts of long-term programs carried out by several nations, the @_SouthernOcean remains one of the most under-observed regions on our planet." — @drsianhenley @SOOSocean .🚨📢
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RT @SOOSocean: At the #SOOSSymposium2023 300 experts from 25 nations met in Hobart to underscore the Southern Ocean's vital role in regulat….
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I’m looking for ♥️💙💜💛🖤💚🧡.
With what’s going down in #Antarctica right now, this is a critically important time to bring together hundreds of the world’s @_SouthernOcean scientists for the first-ever global meeting of @SOOSocean. We’re proud it’s in 🇦🇶 gateway @cityofhobarttas.
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RT @Ant_Partnership: “To say unprecedented isn't strong enough”: as #Antarctic sea ice levels nose-dive, AAPP scientists warn @abcnews the….
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Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and...
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RT @Ant_Partnership: 'Southern Signals' is our quarterly science bulletin. Read the latest about our research on Antarctic sea ice and the….
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aw shucks ☺️.
For the first time in August, @SOOSocean will hold one of the world’s most important international scientific gatherings about an ocean central to the Earth system. We look forward to welcoming #SOOSSymposium2023 to @cityofhobarttas next month!.
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RT @Ant_Partnership: 🧵1/6.The global ocean naturally stores about $3 trillion worth of carbon a year, about a third of the carbon we emit.….
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Holding my breath ‘til I turn blue.
🧶 1/9.The massive currents swirling around Antarctica are a crucial driver of the global network of ocean currents that transport heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. How will this lifeline change on a warming planet?.[animation: @NASAViz]
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I’m seething inside 🤯.
🌋 One of Australia’s only active volcanoes is erupting! This remarkable satellite image on 25 May shows lava flows from Big Ben on Heard Island in the @_SouthernOcean. The summit Mawson's Peak is 2745m above sea level. 📸 @CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 🛰️.👏 processed @Pierre_Markuse
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I've got you covered.
I've been working on the payback for some time.
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😎These delightful little solar-powered carbon-sponges get under my skin. .
Sea ice is to life in the Southern Ocean as soil is to a forest.🦠Microalgae such as diatoms and flagellates use #Antarctic sea ice as a unique and highly variable habitat. Teeming communities of these tiny specialised primary producers are quite diverse. 🧵1/7
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