Study challenges classical view of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current origin and warns of its vulnerability
Professor Dimitris Evangelinos, first author of the study and member of the Consolidated Research Group on Marine Geosciences of the UB, in an image from the current research campaign in Antarctica. Credit: University of Barcelona
The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet's climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago. Now, a study…