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The southern oceans are generally considered as isolated systems, much like their northern counterparts. But a combination of historical data and new density profiles suggests that they may be connected on a global scale.

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1. Dean Roemmich is at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0230, USA. droemmich@ucsd.edu,
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Roemmich, D. Super spin in the southern seas.Nature 449, 34–35 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449034a

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