In research published today in Nature, we show almost half of the heat waves and cold snaps reaching the ocean's twilight zone—between 200 and 1,000 meters—are driven by large eddy currents ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

This deep ocean current has remained in a relatively stable state for ... which transports warm, salty water from the tropics northward at the ocean surface and cold water southward at the ...

Warmer temperatures near the surface are thinning the top layer of the ocean, which generates the most life. “The warm water is floating on cold water so this is going to increase the contrast ...

Currents begin near the North Pole in the North Atlantic where the surface of the ocean gets cooled by the arctic temperatures. As sea ice forms, salt stays behind and the water there becomes saltier.

Ocean current expected to warm - and could drive up sea level rise, study finds WLRN Public Media | By Jenny Staletovich Published April 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM EDT ...

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, ... The opposite is true for cyclonic eddies shed from western-­boundary ...

A strengthening cold current Karnauskas used different data, when at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a decade ago, to show how cold ocean currents might protect certain islands or coastlines from ...

The cold California Current, flowing down the coast from the north, ... Captain’s Log: Where Cold Ocean Waters Meet Warm Ocean Waters by Capt. David Bacon February 16, 2023 ...