Arctic Ocean Circulation
In a Spin: New Insights into the Beaufort Gyre
A ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ in the Arctic
Scientists discover that the amount of heat in a major Arctic Ocean circulation system has doubled over the past 30 years. If the temperatures continue to spike, it could eventually spell trouble for the ice above.
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The complex ocean circulation system in the Arctic—which impacts the entire food web—is in a delicate balance.
Read MoreAlien Waters: Neighboring Seas Are Flowing into a Warming Arctic Ocean
quotes Robert Pickart
Climate change’s unseen impact on the Arctic Ocean
quotes Lauren Kipp
Arctic Ocean composition is undergoing rapid change
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Communicating Under Sea Ice
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution developed a new communication and navigation system that works over long distances under Arctic sea ice, allowing scientists to use autonomous underwater vehicles to explore the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
Read MoreSigns of Big Change in the Arctic
The climate in the Arctic region once predictably shifted back and forth between two regimes. But now the system seems to be stuck.
Read MoreOcean Robots: Arctic Ocean
Scientists are using robotic platforms like the Ice-Tethered Profiler to give them a look beneath ice-covered waters in order to…
Read MoreIce, Wind & Fury
Greenlanders are well away of piteraqs, the hazardous torrents of cold air that sweep down off the ice cap. But scientists are just beginning to unravel how and when piteraqs form.
Read MoreIce Age and Climate Change: Heat-Pond in Arctic Blew Up?
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New Study by WHOI Scientists Provides Baseline Measurements of Carbon in Arctic Ocean
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various…
Read MoreNewly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change North Atlantic Climate Picture
An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland that could significantly influence the oceans response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways.
Read MoreExploring the Arctic in the Midst of Change
Chief Scientist Bob Pickart and his 26-member science team were in the hangar at the Barrow Air Search and Rescue…
Read MoreTeam finds subtropical waters flushing through Greenland fjord
Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration…
Read MoreTurning a Toy into a Scientific Tool
John Bailey spends most sunny weekends on a grassy field behind a movie theater on Cape Cod with a group…
Read MoreStudy Finds Surprising New Pathway for North Atlantic Circulation
Oceanographers have long known that the 20-year-old paradigm for describing the global ocean circulation– called the Great Ocean Conveyor –…
Read MoreArctic Winch
The Arctic Winch is a small buoyant float (white) attached to the mooring’s red top-float. It carries instruments to measure…
Read MoreIce-Tethered Profiler Deployment
WHOI researchers deploy a new instrument, an Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP). The ITP has a small yellow surface capsule that dangles…
Read MoreUsing ITPs to Explore Change in the Arctic
(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007
Read MorePutting ITPs In and Getting Data Out
(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007
Read MoreIce Capades
(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007
Read MoreInstalling and Recovering an Ice-Tethered Profiler
Researchers Setting Up Observatories to Examine Arctic Changes from Under the Ice
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are venturing this month to the North Pole to deploy instruments that…
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