This September, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography invites the community to join in celebrating a milestone: ...

A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an ...

Description: Introduces descriptive and dynamical physical oceanography, focusing on the nature and dynamics of ocean currents and their role in the distribution of heat and other aspects of ocean ...

Physical oceanography examines the motions, structure and energy exchanges that govern the ocean’s role in Earth’s climate and marine ecosystems. At its core are the wind-driven surface currents that ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to "hear" the impacts of a marine heat wave and even economic slowdowns by analyzing 15 years of ...

Satellite Oceanography involves use of Satellite Remote Sensing for studying ocean circulation and climate change utilizing both active microwave sensors (altimeters, scatterometers, imagers) and ...