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Physical and chemical properties of seawater

A yellow submarine glider floats on the ocean surface.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Autonomous Minisubmarine Measures Seawater Conditions

by Terri Cook 23 November 2020

Forecasts of carbonate chemistry in coastal ecosystems determined from seasonal robotic measurements can improve fisheries management and help mitigate short-term ocean acidification events.

A worker harvests Pacific oysters at low tide at a farm owned by Taylor Shellfish Co. in Washington’s Oyster Bay.
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Developing Ocean Acidification “Champions” in Congress

by Randy Showstack 10 December 201810 December 2018

Ocean acidification “provides a case study of a way that we can drive forward bipartisan action on an environmental issue,” says an Ocean Conservancy scientist.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Definition of Potential Spicity by the Least Square Method

by L. Zhou 19 November 2018

A thermodynamic function of the potential spicity is defined and it is orthogonal to the potential density in the least square sense.

Ocean water, seen from below the surface, with sunlight beams streaming through.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Potential Spicity: From Abstract Theory to Practical Application

by L. Zhou 16 November 201816 November 2018

A method for estimating potential spicity, a thermodynamic variable in oceanography, provides a new way to describe contrasts in watermass properties.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Coastal Ocean Warming Adds to CO2 Burden

by P. Brewer 29 May 2018

With coastal oceans around the world changing from the effects of urbanization, rising carbon dioxide levels, and climate warming, recent work begins to find new land-sea linkages.

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Advancing Satellite Ocean Color Observations

by S. B. Moran 27 March 2018

A new derived algorithm for particle backscattering and multi-year VIIRS climatology improves ocean color parameterization in highly turbid coastal and inland waters.

Cross section of a Monorhaphis chuni spicule showing its lamellae (rings).
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One of World’s Oldest Animals Records Ocean Climate Change

by M. Kumar 27 February 2018

Researchers probe millennia-old deep-ocean sponges for links between ocean nutrients and climate.

Researchers track waters from the Mediterranean where they meet the Black Sea to see how they interact.
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Big Storms Pump Mediterranean Water Far into the Black Sea

by Sarah Stanley 11 April 201711 April 2017

For the first time, scientists provide a sea-wide view of what happens to Mediterranean waters that flow into the Black Sea through the Bosporus Strait.

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