Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world’s largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen during periods of ice age and warmer intervals in Earth’s history, researchers ...

One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the planet via currents. Think of the ocean as Earth's central heating system, constantly redistributing thermal energy from the ...

The East/Japan Sea is a complex and dynamic marginal sea whose circulation patterns are governed by a combination of local atmospheric forcing, basin geometry, and exchanges with surrounding margins.

Discover how the Coriolis effect shapes weather patterns across the globe, including ocean currents and a hurricane’s spin.

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a ...

The Gulf of Mexico represents a dynamic and complex marine environment where the interplay of large-scale ocean currents and mesoscale eddies drives significant regional variability. At the heart of ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

Despite the sea appearing to be a calm and uneventful natural feature, the depths of the ocean were not an alien ecosystem. A recent study indicates the connection between nature and the processes ...