The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

Ocean circulation also serves as the mediator between large-scale ... the heat engine that is a critical player in global climate processes. The simulated mean thermohaline structure in the central ...

New satellite data has revealed a shocking decline in sea ice at both the Arctic and Antarctic, with coverage shrinking to a ...

There are studies that predict the end of the Gulf Stream. A recent study from England comes to a less dramatic conclusion.

Jones (1998), Thermohaline transitions ... Isachsen, The large-scale time-mean ocean circulation in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean estimated from simplified dynamics, J. Mar. Res.

A major motor for the global climate is beginning to falter: a massive system of ocean currents called the Atlantic ...

Ocean currents are continuous movements of water in the Earth’s oceans. They are driven by both wind and thermohaline circulation interacting with each other. Wind moves the surface waters by ...

such as the thermohaline circulation. Because the ocean and atmosphere are linked, this will have a further knock-on effect to weather patterns.

The global ocean “conveyor belt” circulation, shown in part here as red and blue lines, circulates cooler seawater below the surface and warmer seawater at the surface throughout the world’s ...