{"id":546452,"date":"2010-04-28T07:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2010-04-28T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:53:40","slug":"climate-influencing-current-discovered-near-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546452","title":{"rendered":"Climate-influencing current discovered near Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63O1NJ20100426\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20100426&amp;t=2&amp;i=97833569&amp;w=460&amp;r=2010-04-26T163227Z_01_BTRE63P19Y600_RTROPTP_0_ANTARCTICA-WORK-PENGUINS\" width=\"333\" align=\"left\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/04\/27\/6\/\" >ClimateWire<\/a>: Australian and Japanese scientists have discovered a deep-sea current  described in a new study as key to the workings of global climate,  functioning as a &#8220;conveyor belt&#8221; for cold water from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Antarctica\" >Antarctica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in Sunday&#8217;s issue of <em>Nature Geoscience<\/em>,  found that the current carries water north to the Kerguelen Plateau of  the southern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Indian_Ocean\">Indian Ocean<\/a>, at which point it dissipates. Scientists want  to know whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ocean_circulation\">ocean circulation<\/a> patterns would remain fairly constant  on a warming planet or whether they would be sensitive to change &#8212;  potentially mitigating or compounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Climate_change\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t know if it was a significant part of the circulation or  not, and this shows clearly that it is,&#8221; said co-author Steve Rintoul,  an oceanographer at Australia&#8217;s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial  Research Organisation (CSIRO). &#8220;The deep current along the Kerguelen  Plateau is part of a global system of ocean currents called the  overturning circulation, which determines how much heat and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Carbon_dioxide\">carbon <\/a>the  ocean can soak up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ocean currents affecting global climate have been known to change  over time. Researchers hope to understand what causes changes in  currents such as the Gulf Stream, which carries warm water to the North  Atlantic and makes parts of northern Europe warmer than they would  otherwise be (David Fogarty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63O1NJ20100426\" >Reuters<\/a>,  April 26). <strong>&#8211; GN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3314&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3314\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClimateWire: Australian and Japanese scientists have discovered a deep-sea current described in a new study as key to the workings of global climate, functioning as a &#8220;conveyor belt&#8221; for cold water from Antarctica. The study, published in Sunday&#8217;s issue of Nature Geoscience, found that the current carries water north to the Kerguelen Plateau of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}