Australian climate scientists have located a deep-ocean current in the Tasman Sea that may play a big role in connecting the world's oceans, and therefore regulating Earth's climate.

"It's another link between the Pacific and Indian Ocean,"

Tasman Outflow is a small eddy, or spin off, that carries Pacific water from the Coral Sea down the east coast of Australia and then away to the Indian Ocean. It was identified by crunching a large amount of temperature and salinity data collected by ships, buoys and satellites from 1950 to 2002.

Inter-ocean exchanges are really important to the climate system,"