southern ocean

基本解釋

Unlike the Arctic, where much of the sea ice is — at least for now — year-round, the Southern Ocean’s sea ice is thin and seasonal.
與大部分海冰（至少目前如此）都有一年左右的歷史的北極有所不同，南大洋的海冰很薄且是季節(jié)性的。
A new study finds that global warming is responsible for snowfall that’s expanded the range of Southern Ocean sea ice, even as western Antarctic glaciers have disintegrated.
一項新的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，全球變暖引起了降雪，從而令在南大洋海冰區(qū)域發(fā)生擴散，盡管南極西部的冰川已經(jīng)解體。
In the foreground are scenes visible over a rocky coastline toward the Southern Ocean.
前景是一眼就能看見的南大洋布滿巖石群的海岸線。

This year's hunt in the Southern Ocean has been punctuated by violent clashes between the Japanese fleet and radical conservationists.
Japan kills about 1,000 humpback and minke whales each year in the Southern Ocean as part of what it calls genuine scientific research.
In recent years environmentalists have attempted to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in the icy Southern Ocean.

In 2007 she published a study arguing that the uptake of carbon in the Southern Ocean had levelled out.
ECONOMIST: Climate change