The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface ...

Scientists have discovered a previously undetected water mass in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean: a gigantic body ... Related: NASA's SWOT satellite maps nearly of all Earth's water (video ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the "AMOC," is a system of ocean currents confined ...

Still, there are other parts of the ocean that are even deeper, and many parts yet to be explored. About 71% of the Earth is covered in water and the average depth is 12,080 feet — which is ...

The Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing ... The warmer water starts to pile up along the east coast of the United States. The actual depth of the Gulf Stream increases as the current slows down.

Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...

Researchers created a detailed physical model that suggests a major Atlantic Ocean current will weaken far less under climate change than indicated by more extreme climate model projections.

They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 ... The NOAA cruises used multibeam sonar to scan and map the ocean floor as part of a project titled ...

Scientists have discovered a massive water mass in the Atlantic Ocean called the Atlantic Equatorial ... Oceanographers utilize temperature-salinity charts to map the relationships between these ...