🌊 Southern Ocean

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.

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

Some people consider me cold and remote.
But I’m just getting warmed up.

Stay with me folks. Please follow and like.

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

The little float that could…

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

🌊 1/ A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the Southern Ocean never sampled before — underneath massive floating Denman and Shackleton ice shelves in East #Antarctica.

New in @ScienceMagazine #ScienceAdvances: https://t.co/FPF5ylMoth

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

🥵

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Attention: will the owner of a small blue planet with tectonic plates please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating.

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

Not as crusty as I should be

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

⤵️⤵️ Double dip: For the second winter in a row, the extent of Antarctic sea ice has been exceptionally below average — and has just set a new record low for this time of year.
Read more from AAPP/@UTAS_ and @BOM_au at https://t.co/fc3wPGpzOl

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

💪🏽the youngest ocean with cleanest air and cloudiest skies

[Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future @saef_arc]

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

➡️ https://t.co/7WKe4WFHqO

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

🩺 Feel my pulse

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

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

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

I’m feeling better investigated thank you, but have so much more to reveal

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

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.
➡️ https://t.co/MGrd86Ekdr

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

“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
https://t.co/Xib00CFeNB

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

🥵 not to mention 75% of the excess heat from your CO2 emissions 🫵

[Nature Africa @natAfrica1]

🌊 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.👇🏻

https://t.co/cWoCMoYduv

#NatureAfrica

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

1⃣
What makes the best address for an emperor penguin colony? Each year they return to the same areas of landfast ice – the sea ice attached to the #Antarctic coast – for a stable platform that lasts long enough for their chicks to fledge. But there’s more to it than that.

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

my mob

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

🌊🌏 "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
🚨📢 https://t.co/vSXbPa4AYe

[SOOS @SOOSocean]

At the #SOOSSymposium2023 300 experts from 25 nations met in Hobart to underscore the Southern Ocean's vital role in regulating climate.

@drsianhenley emphasizes the need for global collaboration to comprehend this crucial ecosystem, while @AmidgeAndrew highlights the Southern Ocean's influence on Antarctic ice melt and sea-level rise.

With changing conditions, funding and sustained research are imperative. Let's bridge observation gaps and ensure a sustainable future for our planet! 🌏

https://t.co/Kb3NgIcVL6

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

@edoddridge, @Ant_Partnership and @PatsKarvelas really get under my skin

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

🔊 A compelling interview about the magnitude of #Antarctic sea ice loss – in the depths of winter – by AAPP oceanographer @edoddridge.

📻 Listen in to @RadioNational https://t.co/nkP6Mb8GWd

@CSIRO, @BOM_au, @UTAS_, @IMASUTAS, @AusAntarctic, @IMOS_AUS, @GeoscienceAus, @DCCEEW

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

I’m looking for ♥️💙💜💛🖤💚🧡

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

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.

https://t.co/ZBv00cAGbA

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

“To say unprecedented isn't strong enough”: as #Antarctic sea ice levels nose-dive, AAPP scientists warn @abcnews the natural likelihood of a winter like this is once in 7.5 million years.
@UTAS_, @CSIRO, @BOM_au, @IMOS_AUS, @GeoscienceAus, @AusAntarctic
https://t.co/W2LdN7g3ny

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

'Southern Signals' is our quarterly science bulletin. Read the latest about our research on Antarctic sea ice and the Southern Ocean in the June edition.

Out now! ▶️ https://t.co/Qh6o0suIrP

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

aw shucks ☺️

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

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!
https://t.co/ZBv00cAGbA

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

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The global ocean naturally stores about $3 trillion worth of carbon a year, about a third of the carbon we emit. Knowing how this free eco-service might change in the future may depend on understanding how tiny zooplankton eat.

🔬 Julian Uribe-Palomino, @CSIRO/@IMOS_AUS

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

Hug (at least) one for me. They’re quite nice.
🙏 @firstdogonmoon

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

Holding my breath ‘til I turn blue

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

🧶 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]

[🌊 Southern Ocean @_SouthernOcean]

I’m seething inside 🤯

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

🌋 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