Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

The Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and Madagascar, is home to some of the most turbulent waters in the ocean.

An analysis now suggests that total collapse is unlikely this century. Eddy activity in the high-latitude Southern Ocean is closely linked to large-scale circulation features, and the presence of ...

The team recently published their study in the journal Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. "The design of non-eddy-resolving numerical models requires a good understanding and an appropriate ...

Opposite Spin: When winds move against an eddy’s spin, they slow it down. This breakthrough research challenges long-standing assumptions about ocean weather patterns. By revealing how wind ...

For decades, marine scientists have sought to understand in detail how coastal waters are transported offshore and how this process affects productivity in the open ocean, especially as eddy ...