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 ...
La Niña effects vary drastically by region, even within the United States. Here's what it means for winter weather.
They analyzed 22 global dust records in sediment cores, and found that since the Cenozoic era, dust deposition in major ocean ...
The Southern Ocean's role in driving the global carbon cycle may be stronger than expected as the biological carbon pump is not “switched off” in winter as previously thought. Based on the most ...
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 ...
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 ...
Based on the most comprehensive winter study to date, conducted in the Southern Ocean during July and August 2017, scientists were able to show that phytoplankton were indeed active during the icy ...