Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) play a critical role in regulating the global climate, carrying large amounts of heat north from tropical waters. While there have been many studies conducted on the ...

Looking to support or prove long-held hypotheses on a little-known but important ocean activity, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla led an international ...

The Great Southern Australian Coastal Upwelling System is an upward current of water over vast distances along Australia’s southern coast. It brings nutrients from deeper waters to the surface. This ...

A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature -- pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters ...

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Summer winds are intensifying along the west coasts of North and South America and southern Africa and climate change is a likely cause, a new study says. The winds, which blow parallel to the shore ...

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Whoa. We are well into spring — isn’t the water supposed to be getting warmer across Southern California right now? The days are getting longer and warmer, but the water temps feel as cold as they ...