A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

The anomaly, located just south of Greenland, is — perhaps counterintuitively — called the North Atlantic Warming Hole, and it has been stumping scientists for years. Despite the steady warming of ...

For over a century, scientists have noticed something unusual in the North Atlantic Ocean. While most oceans around the globe steadily warm, the region south of Greenland has stubbornly cooled, ...

Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...

To distinguish water masses, oceanographers chart the relationship between temperature and salinity across the ocean — two measurements that combine to determine the density of seawater.

Which ocean is the saltiest? Of the world’s five ocean basins — Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic — the Atlantic has the highest salinity, says the National Weather Service.

The second-largest ocean on Earth, the Atlantic drives our weather patterns, ... It moves more like a conveyer belt that's driven by changes in temperature and salinity over large areas.

The AMOC is a long current cycle in the Atlantic Ocean that transports warm water across the globe. ... The Gulf Stream is primarily driven by wind rather than temperature and salinity, ...

In the Atlantic Ocean circulation, ... we were able to develop a physics-based and observable early warning signal involving the salinity transport at the southern boundary of the Atlantic Ocean.