Accurate measurements of surface currents are crucial for coastal monitoring, rip current detection, and predicting the path ...

While we can’t usually observe coastal currents from the shoreline, water in the oceans of the world is in constant motion.

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a ...

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For many years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use ...

Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere (ODYSEA) The second UC San Diego-selected concept is led by Gille and called the Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere (ODYSEA ...

Ocean surface currents are a fundamental component of the global climate system, governing the transport of heat, nutrients and pollutants, as well as influencing marine ecosystems and weather ...

The paper found that the water in the Southern Ocean has unexpectedly been getting saltier over the last 10 years, a reversal of a trend measured since roughly the 1970s. Its main author told Snopes ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

An interdisciplinary study confirms, for the first time, the oceanographic pathways that transport floating macroalgae from ...

A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...