Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Ocean circulation also serves as the mediator between large-scale ... of the vertical processes in supplying nutrients from the thermocline to the euphotic zone, resulting in a weaker bloom. Gierach, ...

Mesoscale eddies can affect how sound waves propagate in the ocean, depending on their size, speed, current direction and ...

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.

In this case, ocean circulation changes associated with AMOC ... forming North Atlantic Deep Water Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ): Area of low atmospheric pressure formed by the convergence ...