The authors found that the long-held pattern of tropical ocean temperature stability was only valid at annual scales. The research was published in PNAS Nexus. At finer temporal scales ...

and contribute to variability in global climate and weather patterns. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri applied complex statistical models to increase the accuracy of ocean ...

But now, with the tongue gone due the collision, scientists fear it could trigger changes to the behavior of a major part of global ocean circulation patterns ... ice tongue. A Japanese-led ...

The implications of their results, published today in Nature, are significant because regional sea level, affecting coastal populations around the world, depends on patterns of ocean warming.

Not just any water, either, but deep water that has circulated through every ocean on the planet and is now welling up from the deep sea around Antarctica. The patterns swirling on his computer ...

The periodic cooling and warming of Pacific Ocean currents — colloquially referred to by their nicknames La Niña and El Niño — can trigger profound effects on weather and climate patterns ...