@ZLabe

(6/n)

...
1) life-sustaining #oxygen is moved downward in the #DeepWaterFormation process of the
- #NorthAtlantic (#NADW),
- #AntarticBottomWater (#AABW), and
- #NorthPacificDeepWater (#NPDW).

2) life-sustaining #nutrients are moved upwards.

Bare with me, there is one more puzzle piece that we should look at:

According to the #US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA), 91%
of ocean species have yet to be classified...

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-species.html

@ZLabe

(3/n)

...Then, the forecast was for two decades of rapid #GlobalWarming, which we have been experiencing.

Now, with regard to the latest data the #Antarctica in the south, it shows that the so-called #DeepWaterFormation is not so much "down the drain" anymore, as the oceans and humanity would need it to be:

"The #OceanCirculation, which includes well-known surface and subsurface #currents and the vertical motion of ocean water, appears to have changed in a *major way*..."