People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy ...

“The Southern Ocean is one of the primary places ... “We’ve known for some time that ice sheet melting will impact ocean circulation over the next century and beyond,” Wilson said.

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled ...

Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth's strongest ocean current, according to a new study. The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050, researchers ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean – between Antarctica and other continents – will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long-term increases in ...

Scientists are increasingly worried about a potential slowdown of the major Atlantic ocean current. Now we know it would ...

The Southern Hemisphere supergyre links the ... Running such particle-tracking experiments within the ocean circulation models helps scientists understand how and where environmental contaminants ...

“In the last few decades, the many icebergs that end up taking this route through the Southern Ocean soon ... which has implications for ocean circulation and sea level rise, among other factors.

This influx of fresh water into the Southern Ocean is expected to change the properties, such as density (salinity), of the ocean and its circulation patterns. University of Melbourne researchers ...