{"id":725847,"date":"2010-04-28T23:51:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/new-southern-ocean-current-discovered\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T23:51:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:51:59","slug":"new-southern-ocean-current-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725847","title":{"rendered":"New Southern Ocean Current Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/100427101234-large.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6042\" title=\"100427101234-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/100427101234-large.jpg?resize=600%2C381\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Ocean currents are one of the driving forces behind our planet\u2019s climate, and according to Japanese and Australian scientists a new current has been discovered in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In a paper published in Nature Geoscience the researchers describe an ocean current, approximately 4,200 kilometres south-west of Perth, Australia, that is the equivalent of 40 Amazon Rivers and exists at more than three kilometres below the Ocean\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current carries dense, oxygen-rich water that sinks near Antarctica to the deep ocean basins further north,&#8221; says co-author Dr Steve Rintoul from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and CSIRO&#8217;s Wealth from Oceans Flagship. &#8220;Without this supply of Antarctic water, the deepest levels of the ocean would have little oxygen. <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/new-southern-ocean-current-discovered\/#more-6041\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean currents are one of the driving forces behind our planet\u2019s climate, and according to Japanese and Australian scientists a new current has been discovered in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience the researchers describe an ocean current, approximately 4,200 kilometres south-west of Perth, Australia, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32Pd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}