A review paper by Janet Sprintall, an oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and colleagues considers whether an intensification of the Indian Ocean’s water cycle is ...

The idea that the Atlantic basin is physically deepening as the Strait of Gibraltar slowly collapses into it sounds like science fiction, yet it reflects a real set of tectonic and oceanographic ...

Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...

Oceanography, Vol. 35, No. 3/4, SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE NEW ARCTIC OCEAN (DECEMBER 2022), pp. 144-155 (12 pages) The physical system of the Arctic is changing in profound ways, with implications for the ...

Seafloor lava rubble stores far more carbon than solid rock, revealing a long-overlooked carbon sink shaping Earth’s climate over time.

They analyzed 22 global dust records in sediment cores, and found that since the Cenozoic era, dust deposition in major ocean basins increased stepwise, with sharp rises aligned with Northern ...

Oceanography, Vol. 33, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON PALEOCEANOGRAPHY: LESSONS FOR A CHANGING WORLD (JUNE 2020), pp. 44-52 (9 pages) Modelers of global ocean biogeochemistry are beginning to represent a ...

More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, according to the U.S. Geological survey and of that water, more than 96% of it is contained in one of earth's five oceans. From the Arctic to ...

The Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other ocean basins over the last 50-60 years. While temperature changes basin-wide can be unequivocally attributed to human-induced climate change, it ...