Ocean dynamics encompass the diverse physical processes that govern the circulation of water masses and the associated transport of heat, salt, nutrients and other tracers across the world’s oceans.

Map of the Rossby deformation radius of the mixing layer (in km) in the SCS and the distribution of InIRA data. Each imaging cell along the space station ground tracks represents the effective range ...

In November 2024, our team of scientists, students, and engineers from the Multiscale Ocean Dynamics (MOD) group at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography departed from Honolulu on R/V ...

The Gulf of Mexico, a regional ocean, is hugged by the southeastern United States and a large stretch of the Mexican coast, making it very important for both countries. The area helps bring goods to ...

UW–Madison researchers show a 40,000-year obliquity cycle in Antarctic ice growth altered Southern Ocean nutrients, boosting ...

Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away in the ...