Our new research suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar Current will be 20% slower by 2050 as the world warms ... sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite reveals how small ocean features move heat and nutrients, reshaping climate and circulation models.

Given its key role in regulating the global climate, any change to the world's ocean ... current that separates the Antarctic continent from its northern neighbors, acting as a physical and ...

Water from the Pacific Ocean flows into the Indian Ocean via the Indonesia Archipelago thanks to a vast network of currents that ... professor of physical oceanography at Tohoku University's ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the only ocean ... gradient,” said co-author Lynne Talley, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Oceanography. Long-term data capturing changes in the Southern ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and helps regulate the global climate. But a new study ...

The physical properties ... may be changing. The world is rapidly warming, particularly at the poles. Scientists suspect that this may affect the AMOC: as the current moves north, less evaporation ...

fueling a network of currents called the global meridional overturning circulation and supplying 40% of the world's deep ocean with fresh nutrients and oxygen. But warming global temperatures are ...

As the world’s largest iceberg ... Seamounts are known for being hot spots for ocean biodiversity, as the currents that flow around the mounds create ideal conditions for invertebrates that ...

a three-dimensional system of ocean currents that act as a "conveyer belt" to distribute heat, salt, nutrients, and carbon dioxide across the world's oceans. Changes in the AMOC's strength could ...