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Bookmark or Share- Ocean Currents | NASA EarthdataClimate Indicators hold key information for the most relevant domains of climate change: temperature and energy, atmospheric composition, ocean and water as well as the cryosphere. Cryosphere The cryosphere encompasses the frozen parts of Earth, including glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice, and any other frozen body of water.
- Three reasons why the ocean's record-breaking hot streak is devastatingAntarctic sea ice keeps reaching new lows. The Southern Ocean has absorbed almost as much heat from human-caused climate change as the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans combined. That’s partly ...
- Carbon Cycle - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionThis movement of carbon from one place to another, which is caused by natural and human processes, is known as the carbon cycle. The oceans play a particularly important role in the carbon cycle. Surface waters exchange gases with the atmosphere, absorbing and releasing carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other gases. Plant-like phytoplankton living in ...
- Ocean Trenches - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionOcean trenches are steep depressions in the deepest parts of the ocean [where old ocean crust from one tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate, raising mountains, causing earthquakes, and forming volcanoes on the seafloor and on land. With depths exceeding 6,000 meters (nearly 20,000 feet), trenches make up the world’s "hadal zone ...
- Why is the ocean blue? - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWhy is the ocean blue? People have wondered this for hundreds of years. One idea is that it reflects the sky. And it does—on the surface. From the coast, it may appear a deep blue on a sunny day. Or gray when it’s stormy. Or even turn a brilliant pink during sunrise or sunset. But if we sink below the surface, the blue color remains. Here ...
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