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A cruise during autumn freeze-up in the western Arctic Ocean
A cruise during autumn freeze-up in the western Arctic Ocean
Read MoreUntangling Eddy Kinetic Energy in Our Oceans and Climate Models
By Randy Showstack The Ocean’s heat, freshwater, carbon, and nutrients are transported around the globe by ocean currents, including the meandering, swirling, and wiggly mesoscale eddy field. These eddying motions…
Read MoreSatellite Altimetry Mission Promises Huge Advances for Physical Oceanography and Hydrology
Thomas Farrar, the oceanography science co-lead for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, says that when the satellite launches in late 2022, it will provide huge advances for…
Read MoreOcean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow
In an article published in the Nov. 29 issue of Nature Climate Change, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripps Institution of Oceanography found
Read MoreWHOI scientists monitor the ocean with innovative tools and techniques to improve hurricane forecasting
Steve Jayne says that flying through hurricanes on a Lockheed-Martin WC-130J Weatherbird aircraft with the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s Hurricane Hunters…
Read MoreChanges in the North Atlantic deep western boundary currents not directly linked to the Meridional Overturning Circulation in 2014-2018
A new study through the international efforts of fifteen research institutes has cast doubts on the view…
Read MoreThe coastal ocean can intensify atmospheric rivers, researchers find
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that ARs derive moisture, known as latent heat flux, from the coastal ocean as the rivers travel…
Read MoreNew resource for teachers on how oceanographers take the pulse of ocean currents
One of the means by which we observe the ocean is to deploy moorings, lines with anchors on the seafloor and flotation…
Read MoreSearch and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures
Predicting the location of a person lost at sea several hours after the accident is critical for a successful search and rescue operation. TRAPs are structures within the oceanic flow…
Read MoreGulf Stream transport
The Gulf Stream, one of, if not the world’s strongest ocean current, plays a major role in earth’s climate by transporting heat from the tropics to the mid latitudes. Changes…
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