It’s Fourth of July week, our nation’s 249th birthday. What better time to remind ourselves that part of the success of our ...

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Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that Earth had started spinning in the opposite direction. The sun would rise in the west, set in the ... Read more The post What If Earth Rotated Backward?

It is a key component of global thermohaline circulation (currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity), providing roughly 85% of the Gulf Stream as it flows through the Straits of ...

Caption: Figure 1 Map of the Gulf of Mexico with dots marking the positions of 10,000+ temperature and salinity profiles collected by UGOS-funded Argo-equivalent floats from June 2019 – February 2025, ...

Gulf Stream. Image via Openverse. Beyond its regional climatic effects, the Gulf Stream functions as part of a global network of ocean currents that redistribute heat and moisture across the globe.

Tracking Ocean Temperatures and Salinity When viewed through the lens of ECCO’s temperature data, western boundary currents carry warm water away from the tropics and toward the poles. In the case of ...

The three most prominent are the Gulf Stream, Agulhas, and Kuroshio. Seafarers have known about the Gulf Stream—the Atlantic Ocean's western boundary current—for more than 500 years.

Atlantic currents collapse could lead to severe climate changes. Credit: Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0 Leading climate scientists are urging Nordic leaders to take immediate action as critical Atlantic Ocean ...

The final way that an ocean current can form is through thermohaline circulation. An example of this is the Gulf Stream. Currents formed in this way occur at both deep and shallow levels, and move ...

The Gulf Stream is part of the North Atlantic Gyre, a clockwise-moving highway of ocean currents driven by wind patterns that play a role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and parts ...

Scientists previously thought the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – a complex system of deep and surface ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream – was weaker during extreme cold ...