Originating in the Gulf of Mexico and driving right across the North Atlantic, the Gulf Stream transports 100 times more water than all the rivers on Earth. Thirty million cubic metres of water ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre ... northward-flowing Gulf Stream and eventually ...

Meteorologist Victoria Wisniewski sat down with a fellow Atmospheric Scientist to discuss how the air and sea are connected ...

More information: Zhihong Song et al, Origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57395-4 Journal information: Nature Communications ...

Meteorologists track another important teleconnection known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO ... this strengthening allows the jet stream to smooth out, fostering a period of calmer ...

1990a, Zaucker & Broecker 1992), while others argue changes in atmospheric circulation were the driver (the wind field oscillation ... of the North Atlantic via the Gulf Stream, the ocean ...

Research indicates that the Gulf Stream, a key ocean current in the North Atlantic, may collapse due to climate change. Scientists have stressed that this could signify surpassing a critical point ...