Ocean robots installed off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters of the continental shelf exchange. The process occurs ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2015
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Trekking across the high Canadian Arctic almost 20 years ago, Howie Scher had an unexpected encounter that helped fix the course of his career.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2015
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As tropical storm Isaac was gaining momentum toward the Mississippi River in August 2012, University of Miami (UM) researchers were dropping instruments from the sky above to study the ocean conditions beneath the storm. ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2015
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Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact the climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2015
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Jellyfish have long been a stinging fact of life at the Jersey shore, but lately some dangerous species have been making their way to the area.
Ecology
Jun 23, 2015
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A new record of past climate change shows that a warm climate in northern Europe can be hit by a sudden cooling associated with an interruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation and the Gulf Stream. This is shown in ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2015
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The melting Arctic is not the source for less saline Nordic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream that has provided less salt.
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2014
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The force of the Gulf Stream was significantly influenced by the sea ice situation in the Fram Strait in the past 30,000 years. Scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2014
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Several recent studies have generated a great deal of publicity for their claims that the warming climate is slowing the pace of the Gulf Stream. They say that the Gulf Stream is decreasing in strength as a result of rising ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, according to new research from the University of Reading.
Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2014
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