According to a recent study, a team of researchers has determined that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is at an increased risk ...

The AMOC is driven, by differences in water temperatures and salinity, but climate change could disrupt that balance.

Scientists warn that the Gulf Stream system could shut down after 2100, driving extreme winters, drying summers, and chaotic rainfall shifts.

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), a sediment core from the Southeast Pacific ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Atmospheric measurements made at Earth’s geographic poles provide a convenient way of validating and calibrating global circulation models. Such measurements also might provide some ...

A study published in PNAS found that continued infusion of freshwater ice melt into the ocean could throw a global ocean climate circulation system off balance. (Courtesy of TiPES/HP) (CN) --- A ...

(CN) — A crucial system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean is displaying early signs of collapse, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study warns that ...

A new study sheds light on the vital role that the mixing of Atlantic and Arctic waters plays in sustaining the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is crucial for regulating ...

Oceanography, Vol. 25, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Internal Waves (JUNE 2012), pp. 20-29 (10 pages) ABSTRACT. Ocean tides, and the atmospherically forced oceanic general circulation and its associated ...