As ice melts, multiple models yield more detailed route predictions than any single model alone.
Oceans
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Tracking Long-Term Changes in Global Sea Level Extremes
Large-scale climate change may drive trends in extreme sea level events.
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Simulating Tidal Flow and Mixing at Steep Submarine Slopes
A new three-dimensional model of tide-driven flow over the continental slope could enhance understanding of global ocean circulation.
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Human Activities Account for Less Than a Third of Ocean Nitrogen
Researchers found that humans contribute far less nitrogen to the open ocean than previously thought.
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Icebergs Fertilize Southern Ocean, Sequester Carbon
Huge, drifting ice rafts (the white spot on the satellite image below ) shed minerals as they melt, painting trails of nutrients, teeming phytoplankton, and chlorophyll across hundreds of kilometers of ocean.
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Fumio Inagaki Receives 2015 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize
Fumio Inagaki was awarded the 2015 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The Taira Prize is a partnership between AGU and the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), and is made possible through a generous donation from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International (IOPD-MI). The prize honors an individual for "outstanding transdisciplinary research accomplishment in ocean drilling."
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New Technology and Teamwork to Tackle Ocean Color Radiometry
International Ocean Colour Science Meeting; San Francisco, California, 15–18 June 2015
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Novel Vents Built from Talc Found Far from Mid-Ocean Rift
Researchers discovered the first new variety of hydrothermal vents in a decade—a finding that may give clues to how oceanic crust cools.
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Using Sounds from the Ocean to Measure Winds in the Stratosphere
Stratospheric winds deflect acoustic waves from the oceans. With the right data and the math to analyze them, these waves tell us about the weather aloft.
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Russ E. Davis Receives 2015 Maurice Ewing Medal
Russ E. Davis was awarded the 2015 Maurice Ewing Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "significant contributions to the ocean sciences."