Nature World News: Sea ice forming slowly and quietly in coastal regions may be behind it all.
That is, that briny ice is one of the main drivers of circulation deep in the ocean, and influences climate regionally and worldwide--although it isn't reflected well in current global climate models. A paper on that topic was recently accepted for publication in the journal Paleoceanography.
Researchers from University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere analyzed sediment cores from the Bering Sea that show...