Deep convective mixing that reaches down into the abyssal ocean occurs in only a few specific high-latitude regions worldwide -- principally the North Atlantic (Labrador Sea, Greenland/Norwegian Seas) and the Southern Ocean (Weddell Sea, Ross Sea) -- not preferentially in the Indian Ocean.
Abyssal-reaching deep convection, which forms the deep and bottom water masses of the global ocean (e.g., North Atlantic Deep Water, Antarctic Bottom Water), occurs primarily...
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