To explain the seasonal erosion of the cold pool, the authors set up a salinity budget, which acts like a census taker and counts the influx and exit of ocean water into and out of the cold pool from ...

Scientists have found that an increase in water salinity in the cells of the marine diatom Nitzschia weakens the connections between the components of the photosynthetic apparatus and disrupts the ...

Does a quieter typhoon season mean safer seas? Researchers warn the opposite may be true. As fewer typhoons pass through Korean waters, the ocean loses a critic ...

Since the saltiness of ocean surface waters is a key variable in the climate system, understanding how this changes is important to understanding climate change. Thanks to ESA’s Climate Change ...

Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO 2). However, observational data actually shows that this ability has seen no ...

Ocean salinity dynamics arise from the balance between freshwater inputs and removals and the transport of salt by ocean currents. Surface salinity patterns are shaped by evaporation, precipitation, ...

Briny warm water is mixing on the surface of the ocean, making sea ice melt faster, a new study found. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Some of the water around Antarctica has been getting saltier. And that ...

Scientists discover giant missing blob of water in the middle of the Atlantic ...

On still mornings in Imperial County, a chalky haze drifts off the dry lakebed where the Salton Sea used to reach. By afternoon, fine-particle dust settles on playgrounds, car hoods, and the lungs of ...

The near-bottom water on the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional marine ecosystem. This 'cold pool' preserves winter temperatures, even when ...