Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is the coldest, densest, most saline-in-effect water mass that fills the deep ocean basins and drives the deep limb of the global thermohaline (meridional overturning) circulation.
AABW forms mainly around Antarctica (e.g., Weddell and Ross Seas) through brine rejection during sea-ice formation, sinks to abyssal depths, and spreads northward into all...
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