Antarctic sea ice control on ocean circulation in present and glacial climates

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele, Jansen, Malte F., Adkins, Jess F., Burke, Andrea, Stewart, Andrew L., Thompson, Andrew F.
• Other Authors: University of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews. St Andrews Isotope Geochemistry, University of St Andrews. Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Carbon cycle; Ice age; Ocean circulation; Paleoceanography; Southern Ocean; GC Oceanography; GE Environmental Sciences; BDC; R2C; SDG 13 - Climate Action; GC; GE; Antarctic; Kerr; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5401; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323922111

All authors acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation. R.F. acknowledges support from the Breene M. Kerr Chair. In the modern climate, the ocean below 2 km is mainly filled by waters sinking into the abyss around Antarctica and in the North Atlantic. Paleoproxies indicate that waters...