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Giant waves, monster winds and Earth’s strongest current: here’s why the Southern Ocean is a global engine room

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par Luke Bennetts, Lecturer in applied mathematics, University of Adelaide
Callum Shakespeare, Senior Lecturer in Climate and Fluid Physics, Australian National University
Catherine Vreugdenhil, ARC DECRA Research Fellow in Fluid Dynamics, The University of Melbourne

The Southern Ocean is wild and dynamic. It experiences Earth’s strongest winds and largest waves. It is home to city-sized icebergs and the biggest ocean current on the globe, as well as tiny turbulent flows that fit inside a teacup.

The…

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