Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.

The thermal inertial of the climate system is in the ocean, so understaning the physics governing the storage of heat by the ocean and the movement of heat and other properties by currents is ...

Together, surface and deepwater currents form the “global conveyor belt,” which circulates seawater over a 1,000-year journey ...

Underneath the surface of the ocean there are some important things happening that most human eyes never see. The Atlantic ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

A new study finds that phytoplankton blooms, often seen near the separation point of western boundary currents, are supported ...

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

Mesoscale eddies are large, swirling ocean currents that are kilometers ... a large influence on climate, circulation, and the mixture of heat, salt and nutrients in the ocean.

would be connected by the ocean currents. This would create a pole-to-equator circulation, almost like a conveyor belt, that influences the distribution of heat and nutrients. The theory ...

Thinner Arctic sea ice may affect global ocean circulation Date: March 31, 2025 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing ...

A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating ... in salinity,” she said. The current, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has drawn increasing ...