摘要：Precisely fifty years ago, in a 3-page letter to Deep-Sea Research, Henry Stommel (1958) highlighted the role played by Antarctica in driving the oceans’ abyssal circulation. Since then, many studies of the present and past ocean have redefined the close links between Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and their influence on the global ocean and climate. To highlight those links, we briefly review Antarctica’s impact on the surface of the Southern Ocean at glacial-interglacial (G-I) and millennial timescales.
