A new study gives alarming glimpse into the future, as some scientists warn these currents could be just decades from ...

The Beaufort Gyre is a massive wind-driven circular ocean current ... water containing very few salts – in a clockwise direction near the ocean's surface, blown by wind. But due to warmer ...

A cold blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...

In addition to controlling physical properties, the variation in space and time of temperature and salinity are also important water mass tracers that can be used to map the ocean circulation.