In order to understand currents, tides and other ocean dynamics, scientists need to accurately capture sea surface height, or ...

According to new research from dozens of international scientists published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences early on ...

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Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Hurricanes feed off of warm ocean waters. What happens then when that ocean heat is made 400 times more likely due to human-caused climate change? You get record-shattering Hurricane Beryl. Unusually ...

UD professor and students head out on the Hugh R. Sharp Research Vessel to study the boundary between the ocean and the air The boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, where the air and sea ...

For nearly a year now, a bizarre heating event has been unfolding across the world’s oceans. In March 2023, global sea surface temperatures started shattering record daily highs, and have stayed that ...

The temperature of the planet’s oceans rose to new heights this week, setting a new record with no sign of cooling down. The average global ocean surface temperature hit 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.7 ...

Scientists are running out of extreme adjectives to describe the state of the world’s oceans. Global sea surface temperatures are spiking off the charts. The North Atlantic Ocean, in particular, has ...

Something unusual happened off the coast of Panama this year, and at first it did not look dramatic. There was no single ...

In late July, far from shore, off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the ocean shifted after a powerful tremor, and something ...