Ocean Circulation
Upper-Ocean Response to Precipitation Forcing in an Ocean Model Hindcast of Hurricane Gonzalo
John Steffen, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreThree things you may not know about sea level rise
Since the turn of the 20th century, seas have risen six to eight inches globally. New technologies, along with a better understanding of how the oceans, ice sheets, and other components of climate interact, have helped scientists identify the factors that contribute to sea level rise.
Read MoreDense Antarctic water returning to the Atlantic
“This region, the Scotia Sea, is unique in that it hosts several different physical mechanisms which launder dense water to make it lighter within a relatively small basin (the Southern Scotia Sea),” says co-author Dr. Kurt Polzin of WHOI. “This small basin relative to a relatively large volume transport enables researchers to assess changes in water mass production ultimately coming from the Antarctic Shelves on a biennial basis, compared to decadal time scales from other sections.”
On the Vertical Modes of a Restless Ocean
Ken Brink, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreBreaking Ice: Science at the Top of the World
Since 2003, the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has given us an up-close look at one of the fastest-changing parts of the world. In 2018, the Ocean Media Institute at Montana State University sent Hugo Sindelar to join the annual expedition aboard the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent to see how the scientists and engineers involved in the project bring back their hard-earned data and to hear what they’ve learned so far.
Read MoreSummer Student Fellow Presentations: The Role of Coastal Ocean Surface Fluxes During Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers
Sam Bartusek, Princeton University Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreSummer Student Fellow Presentations: Sea Surface Height Variance Spectra of Internal Waves
Weiguang Wu, University of California, San Diego Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreSchmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing: Session 1: Salinity Dynamics
R.Xin Huang, WHOI. Potential Spicity and its Application to Water Mass Analysis and Climate Study Julian Schanze, ESRI. The fate…
Read MoreA tunnel to the Twilight Zone
Scientists track hungry blue sharks as they ride swirling currents down to the ocean twilight zone—a layer of the ocean containing the largest fish biomass on Earth
Read More2019 Sears Public Lecture: Fluids and Health
Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sponsored by: WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program (reception to follow)
Read MoreUncovering Fine-Scale Horizontal and Vertical Ocean Currents in Preparation for SWOT
Ananda Pascual, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Equatorial Ocean Dynamics Impacting Upwelling West of Galápagos Archipelago
Julie K. Jakoboski, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MorePathways of Vertical Nutrient Transports: A Decomposition of Vertical Fluxes
Mara Freilich, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreA Parameterization of Local and Remote Tidal Mixing
Casimir de Lavergne, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreTowards an Understanding of Internal Wave Energy Pathways on the Continental Shelf
Ruth Musgrave, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreThe Seasonal Cycle of Upper-Ocean Mixing in the Bay of Bengal
Deepak Cherian, NCAR Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreStudy Finds No Direct Link Between North Atlantic Ocean Currents, Sea Level Along New England Coast
A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) clarifies what influence major currents in the North Atlantic have on sea level along the northeastern United States. The study, published June 13 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, examined both the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—a conveyor belt of currents that move warmer waters north and cooler waters south in the Atlantic—and historical records of sea level in coastal New England.
Read MoreSpecial Physical Oceanography Department Seminar: Scale and Rossby Number Dependence of Observed Wind Responses to Ocean-Mesoscale Sea Surface Temperatures
Niklas Schneider, University of Hawai’i Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Advancing the Theory and Applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures Methods for Oceanic Surface Flows
Margaux Filippi, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreThe Arctic Ocean Mixed Layer from Basin Scales to Submesoscales
Sylvia Cole, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreThe Subpolar Gyre Regulates Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean
Geodynamics Seminar Hjálmar Hátún, University of the Faroe Islands Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreThe Ocean Conveyor
Today’s climate system is influenced by the ocean’s conveyor-like global circulation.
Read MoreEl Niño & Other Oscillations
El Niño is a warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Together with, La Niña, these make…
Read MoreOcean Circulation
Ocean currents and water properties play large roles in Earth’s climate and ecosystems.
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