Biological oceanography Climate Change
Some ~don’t~ like it hot: Ocean warming is bad for pelagic animals
Global ocean warming is predicted to have negative impacts on ocean animals living in the middle of the food web.
Tag: climate model
Undergraduate Research
Deep Learning of the “Sea”: Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand our Earth’s Climate
Exploring ocean sea surface temperature datasets might be the answer to understanding our Earth’s climate.
Undergraduate Research
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves: Verifying models to predict future oceans
Predicting tomorrow's ocean conditions relies on improving models, today. This summer, SURFO student Katharina Gallmeier worked on just that.
Plastic Pollution
Let them eat plastic – Animals eating microplastic could choke the ocean
Plastic pollution may bring to mind big images - dead birds, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and beaches filled with…
Climate Change
How cold did the ice age really get?
Scientists revisit the question of global temperatures during the last ice age. They tackle this with state of the art…
Climate Change
So You Thought the Heatwave was Over?
Satellites that measure sea surface temperature have demonstrated that marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer, and more intense as…
Climate Change
Skating on Thin Ice
Newly developed global climate models show us that Arctic Sea ice may be more unstable than we previously thought. The…
Volcanoes
Volcanoes and Climate: A Not-So-Explosive Relationship
Reviewing: Dee, Sylvia G., et al. “No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium.” Science 367.6485 (2020):…
Climate Change
A call for clouds in climate models
In this throwback to last March, learn how clouds influence the greenhouse effect. This climate modeling study focused on their…
Climate Change
Do we know what it means to engineer the climate?
At this point, it's undeniable that the climate is changing rapidly. What are our options for mitigation? Many scientists are…
Sea-level Rise
Effects may vary
For the past several decades, satellite data has indicated that our ocean's height is on the rise. But little effort…
Book Review Modeling
Small scale, big effect
Processes in the ocean and climate happen at all sorts of size scales. New research out of NASA's Jet Propulsion…