Ocean currents are continuous movements of water in the Earth’s oceans. They are driven by both wind and thermohaline circulation ... similar to how winds in the atmosphere blow along isobars ...

A new study of satellite imagery and high-resolution climate model data upends previous assumptions and provides insight about how the atmosphere and ocean weather patterns interact. The new research ...

Ocean circulation also serves as the mediator between large-scale ... play a vital role in the tropical heat balance and therefore global climate through atmospheric teleconnections. The Gilbert ...

With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, a slower circulation should also dredge up less carbon from the deep ocean that ...

Scientists found that atmospheric winds can either slow or energize ocean eddies depending on their direction.

As we burn fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is gradually rising, and with it, the planet's ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

In this case, ocean circulation changes associated with AMOC may have amplified small changes initiated in the atmosphere on the transition into warm interstadials. Conversely, a sudden reduction ...

This matters because the southern oceans play an important role in the uptake of heat and carbon dioxide, so any changes in southern ocean circulation ... in the atmosphere increased rapidly ...

and circulation, natural climate variability including El Niño, human-caused climate change, global warming, ocean acidification, atmospheric storms, oceanic eddies. Students will acquire the tools to ...

There is a surplus of energy at the tropics and a deficit in polar areas. Atmospheric and oceanic circulation redistributes this energy, so energy is moved from areas of surplus (between 38 ...