The Oceans and Climate Lab at CU Boulder seeks to better understand the ocean circulation, particularly in the tropical Pacific, and translate such knowledge into improved overall understanding of ...

One of the world’s most important ocean currents is dangerously weakening but new research suggests it is unlikely to stop ...

The Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of North ...

NASA’s giant super pressure balloon, carrying the HIWIND experiment, is racing across the Pacific after launching from New ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage ... regions that—due to their circulation patterns—attract ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

Focusing on ocean circulation and geological processes in the Western Pacific, researchers at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) have been seeking to understand their ...

Specifically, the warming from the Southern Ocean effectively ... tropical Pacific warming enhances precipitation in the western U.S. by altering the atmospheric circulation as in the El Niño ...