Arctic Ocean Circulation
Tracking change in the Arctic Ocean
Changes in the Arctic Ocean are becoming clearer, thanks to an ocean monitoring network maintained by WHOI researchers in the Beaufort Gyre since 2003.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Potential Vorticity Dynamics of the Arctic Halocline
Michael Spall, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84827620172?pwd=QVd3VlF0Tlp0ZjRpY3UzSmZIRjJoUT09 Meeting ID: 848…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Inferring Mixing from Acoustic Observations of Double-Diffusive Staircases in the Arctic Ocean
Nicole Shibley, Yale Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83756315793?pwd=amt3TitUdW5wb3pwSEpmZEdOR1RwQT09 Meeting ID: 837…
Read MoreGeodynamics Virtual Seminar: The Elusive Arctic Carbon Budget: Bridging Gaps Between Observations and Models
Jennifer Watts, Woods Hole Research Center Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89217068485 Meeting ID: 892 1706 8485 Password: 009874
Read MoreStudy Finds New Source of Trace Elements Could Rapidly Change Arctic Ecosystems
A new study by WHOI and their international colleagues found that freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments are bringing significant quantities of carbon and trace elements into parts of the Arctic Ocean via the Transpolar Drift—a major surface current that moves water from Siberia across the North Pole to the North Atlantic Ocean.
Imagining Home: scientist’s stay in the Arctic extended by coronavirus
WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian is aboard the icebreaker Polarstern in the Arctic as part of the year-long MOSAiC research expedition. She should be almost home by now. Instead, her stay has been extended by COVID19.
Read MoreObservations of Coupled Air-Sea Submesoscale Processes in the Antarctic MIZ
Sebastiaan Swart, University of Gothenburg Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreOases in Sea Ice Are Essential to Life in Antarctica
This video explains the key physical, biological and ecological processes in oases on the Antarctic icy coast — polynyas. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Delaware are trying to unveil crucial connections among the physical and biological components in the polynyas and to understand how the Antarctic ecosystem responds to changes in the large-scale environment.
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Greenlandic Ice Archives of North Atlantic Common Era Climate
Matthew B. Osman, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreThe Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements and Isotopes to the Central Arctic Ocean
Matt Charette, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreArctic Ocean Circulation
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
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Climate change’s unseen impact on the Arctic Ocean
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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…
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