Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Within glacial ice sheets, there are streams of ice ... Since the Gulf Stream carries warm water from the tropical Atlantic Ocean up the coast of the Carolinas and then across to Europe, she explains, ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a chain reaction that disrupts the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...

L. Colony, Response of sea ice to the Arctic Oscillation, J. Climate, 15(18), 2648-2663 (2002). Rudels, B., and H. Friedrich, The transformations of Atlantic water in the Arctic Ocean and their ...

1990a, Zaucker & Broecker 1992), while others argue changes in atmospheric circulation were the driver (the wind field ... North Atlantic by ocean currents is reduced when AMOC weakens, ice ...

The nearest ocean to the UK is the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches from Europe ... Higher global temperatures mean that ice caps begin to melt, sea levels rise and people in low-lying coastal areas ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic ... Meltwater pouring off the Antarctic ice shelves is projected to dilute salty ...