If you’ve ever been on an airplane, you know how turbulence feels: shaky and chaotic. Just like there is turbulence in the air, there is turbulence in the ocean, except ocean turbulence doesn’t ...

“Shaken, not stirred” — it is widely known how James Bond prefers his martinis. In physics, stirring stretches a fluid into thin streaks, creating turbulence and mixing its properties. In the ocean, a ...

At first glance, the meeting point of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans looks like a dramatic clash between two separate bodies of water. The difference in water color, often observed in places like ...

A cabled observatory used a variety of highly sensitive instruments to determine the mixing of ocean water off the coast of Japan over time and its correlation with plankton and aggregate abundance ...

Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. As this cold fresh water from glacier melt enters lakes and oceans, it can have a big effect on how the water behaves — and on the fish, mammals, and other ...

GOES-East satellite observations and machine learning have, for the first time, connected this observed structure to the much more difficult problem of observing ocean currents. Credit: Luc ...