Photographs have been circulating online for years that supposedly depict where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet. In the photographs, there is a clearly visible line between the two, and the water ...

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 ...

Ocean mixing is a physical oceanographic phenomenon encompassing the turbulent and wave-driven processes that irreversibly redistribute heat, salt, momentum, and biogeochemical tracers within the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Ocean turbulence arises across a broad range of scales from centimetre‐scale breaking of internal waves to kilometre‐scale eddies, and governs the mixing of heat, salt and nutrients within the ocean ...

The way that heat is transferred from the deep ocean to shallower waters and back also affects how Arctic and Antarctic ice ...

Plankton are tiny, microscopic marine organisms that represent the very bottom of the food chain. Some are photosynthetic and others graze on bacteria and other plankton, but no plankton species can ...