PRINCETON — "This is so cool," Jorge Sarmiento said, twisting around in his chair to tap on a desktop computer until its screen was filled with blue circles, red arrows and green eddies marking a ...

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A developing El Niño is already altering Pacific winds and ocean heat, setting up possible shifts in U.S. weather and ...

U-M reseachers have used a U.S. Navy ocean forecasting model to help bring ocean patterns into clearer focus, potentially benefitting weather forecast models.

In the summer of 2012, a series of punishing heat waves roasted a large portion of the U.S. with record-breaking temperatures that helped spawn one of the most widespread and costliest droughts to hit ...

Scientists have spotted something dramatically unusual in the ocean, and it could be a warning sign of things to come. Warm air dances with cold air; cold water chases warm water. It's all a part of a ...

History would suggest that the El Niño development would mean more hurricane activity in the Eastern Pacific, but that's not always true for Hawaii.

The ocean is full of invisible workers. Trillions of microbes quietly break down carbon-containing organic matter, which ...