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Tag: Ocean circulation

Open ocean polynyas: How these holes in the ice mysteriously appear
Sea Ice

Open ocean polynyas: How these holes in the ice mysteriously appear

For decades now scientists have been fascinated by polynyas, holes that appear in the polar sea ice whose causes are…
December 5, 2020December 6, 2020 Shawn Wang
SURFO Special: The Power of a Swirl
Physical oceanography Undergraduate Research

SURFO Special: The Power of a Swirl

What makes the Mid Atlantic Bight off the U.S. East Coast so unique? SURFO student Madeline Mamer spent this past…
October 3, 2020October 2, 2020 Nyla Husain
How much heat is stored in the oceans: Insights from ice cores
Paleoceanography

How much heat is stored in the oceans: Insights from ice cores

Reviewing: Shackleton, S., et al. “Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial.” Nature geoscience 13.1 (2020): 77-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0498-0 Water…
June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Shawn Wang
Does ocean circulation provide prey for a top ocean predator?
Fisheries

Does ocean circulation provide prey for a top ocean predator?

Ocean circulation patterns are generally thought to move water from one area to another in the world’s oceans. One example…
August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Samantha Setta
Evidence of the Ocean Releasing CO2
Biogeochemistry

Evidence of the Ocean Releasing CO2

Starting 8,000 years ago, a modest but unusual rise in atmospheric CO2 has kept our planet livable and paved the…
August 30, 2018August 30, 2018 Julia Dohner
The Declining Japanese Eel Population: Is Ocean Circulation to Blame?
Biological oceanography

The Declining Japanese Eel Population: Is Ocean Circulation to Blame?

Recent declines in Japanese eel populations have been attributed to overfishing, but that may not be the only factor at…
April 12, 2018April 11, 2018 Julia Dohner
Changing winds drive more ocean heat capture
Climate Change

Changing winds drive more ocean heat capture

A team of scientists look to the Southern Ocean to show where and why the ocean has been storing extra…
January 5, 2018 Veronica Tamsitt
Mixing it up in the Southern Ocean
Physical oceanography

Mixing it up in the Southern Ocean

A team of scientists used underwater ocean gliders to measure ocean turbulence and mixing along the Antarctic continental slope and…
November 8, 2017November 8, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Return from the deep: three-dimensional pathways of upwelling in the Southern Ocean
Physical oceanography

Return from the deep: three-dimensional pathways of upwelling in the Southern Ocean

A group of scientists mapped the pathways of deep water to the sea surface in three-dimensions for the first time,…
September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Conservation

Current connections: how far away coastlines influence marine reserves

A research team used a state-of-the-art model to map how four remote Marine Protected Areas are connected to the surrounding…
June 13, 2017June 12, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Book Review Sea Ice

Atlantic confirmed as accomplice in Arctic sea ice loss

A team of scientist gathered new evidence from the Arctic Ocean, revealing a new suspect responsible for rapidly melting Arctic…
April 10, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Book Review Physical oceanography

Oceans absorb more carbon with weaker ocean circulation

A team of researchers investigate why the ocean has been absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere in recent decades, and…
March 9, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Physical oceanography

Antarctica’s bottom waters freshen up

A team of researchers went back to the same part of Antarctic after a decade to see how the deep…
February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Book Review Physical oceanography

Earth’s strongest current even stronger than previously thought

The Antarctic Circumpolar current, which wraps around Antarctica and connects the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, is notoriously difficult to…
January 13, 2017January 11, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Book Review Physical oceanography

A salty ocean makes a happy home (planet)

The first things we learn about the ocean are that it’s big and salty. We know that its bigness is…
July 28, 2016July 26, 2016 cael
Physical oceanography

Ocean circulation keeping it cool in Antarctica

A group of scientists have delved deeper to solve the puzzle of why the ocean around Antarctica has been cooling,…
June 6, 2016 Veronica Tamsitt
Book Review Physical oceanography

12,000 feet under the sea, from space

A pair of scientists have figured out how to track deep ocean currents using gravity measurements from space.
May 11, 2016May 11, 2016 Veronica Tamsitt
Alternative Energy Climate Change

Cooling in North Atlantic Defies Global Warming

Sluggish ocean circulation can’t keep up with global climate change and this has caused the North Atlantic to cool.
April 20, 2015August 28, 2021 Hillary Scannell

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