The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, composed

Lynne Talley seated near the Scripps pier in San Diego. Credit: Robert Benson.

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We’re headed pretty far south to the seas spiraling around Antarctica.

Lynne Talley from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explained, “This is the only part of the ocean that has no land barrier all the way around. It connects the Atlantic to the Indian to the Pacific and back. It’s huge.”

Talley’s puzzling out the ocean’s circulation: basically how all that water gushes and surges and flushes around our planet. Have a listen.

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Script for Episode 26

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Photos

Salinity map of the Pacific Ocean with saltier (orange) and less salty (blue) water depicted. Credit: WOCE Atlas Volume 2.

Infrared Antarctic composite image showing cloud cover with land outlines. Credit: Antarctic Meteorological Research Center.

Web Resources

Lynne Talley’s web server
Antarctic cloud cover movie

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Why we won’t be plunged into an Ice Age as the climate changes

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The difference between lumpers and splitters

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