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I have a question about "upwelling". Kurt's report today said "Still seeing colder water temps due to continued upwelling." I have visited Nags Head for nearly all of my 42 years, and I thought that ...

Global warming could have profound effects on the wind-driven upwelling of deep ocean water along the California coast, according to recent studies by researchers at the University of California, ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have for the first time shown that increased acidification of ...

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 ...

Coral bleaching occurs when corals are stressed by high water temperatures and other factors, causing them to expel the symbiotic algae living within them. Given that fact, scientists are now looking ...

Schloeder, Carmen. 2001. "The Effect of Dissolved Inorganic Nutrients in a Coral-Zooxanthella Symbiosis in an Upwelling Environment of the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Gulf of Panama)." Universitat ...

IN MANY PLACES where seaweed used to thrive, often growing in vast “forests”, it is disappearing. The cause is global warming, which, by heating the ocean’s upper layer, reduces its density through ...