How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans and ecosystems to adjust. A slower increase gives humans time to move away ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

Heat Absorption Oceans play a crucial role in absorbing excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, they take in over 90% of this heat, acting as a massive buffer against global ...

One of Scripps's longest-running data centers, serving reference-quality hydrographic ocean data to an international community for over 20 years The Global Ocean Biogeochemical float program supports ...

The thermal inertial of the climate system is in the ocean, so understaning the physics governing the storage of heat by the ocean and the movement of heat and other properties by currents is ...

The weakening of the AMOC has paused since the early 2010s. A recent study by scientists at AOML found that the Atlantic ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

That study was using what we call a box model—a simplified, mathematical representation of the ocean circulation. And I thought, hey, I can run these global models, which are much more realistic ...