Oceans hold onto this heat for longer than the land does and ocean currents ... oceanic surface currents and are found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The map below shows the ...

The initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says ... the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water.

However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could reduce projected ... Creating a Spatial Map of the Sea: New Research Visualizes How Fishing Communities Can Change Fishing ...

Scientists registered each found toy into the Ocean Surface Currents Simulation (OSCAR), a computer model that combines data ...

Questioning whalers, he learned of a powerful current originating from the Gulf of Mexico—hence his name for ... on yellowed old maps were not mere decoration. In the Indian Ocean, for example ...

Hurricane Rafael has made landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 storm. It is expected to continue into the Gulf of Mexico, ...

This week, we chat with journalist Laura Trethewey, author of The Deepest Map: The High ... or the Antarctic Ocean, and we finally figured out, "Okay, we're going to call it the Southern Ocean." Most ...

We used this rich data to uncover the role of eddy currents. Ocean eddies are huge loops of swirling current, sometimes hundreds of kilometres across and reaching down over 1,000 metres.

I’m really trying to offer an alternative to that system where you could, as a small company, very easily get access to data right away in sort of a live forecast model,” said the Current Lab founder.

causing knock-on effects such as thermal expansion - which leads to a rise in sea level - and changes in ocean currents. The melting of ice both on land and in the sea also affects the ocean, causing ...

with ocean currents influencing their frequency. While marine heatwaves (MHWs) have been studied at the sea surface for more than a decade, new research published today in Nature has found 80 per ...

Circular ocean currents, called “eddies,” play an important role in supplying nutrients for marine life and can stimulate ...