Glacier tongue calving reduced dense water formation and enhanced carbon uptake

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Shadwick, E. H.
Rintoul, Stephen R.
Tilbrook, Bronte
Williams, G.D.
Young, Neal
Fraser, A.D.
Marchant, Harvey
Smith, Jodie
Tamura, T

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American Geophysical Union

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Dense shelf water formed in the Mertz Polynya supplies the lower limb of the global overturning circulation, ventilating the abyssal Indian and Pacific Oceans. Calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue (MGT) in February 2010 altered the regional distribution of

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Geophysical Research Letters

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2037-12-31