The ocean’s ability to absorb heat into its depths appears to be rapidly ... satellite data spanning four decades to track how sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have evolved over time.

An extraordinary jump in ocean temperatures ... 70 percent of Earth's surface and are a vital climate regulator and carbon sink. They store 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by humanity's ...

“Without that transport of heat from the atmosphere and the ocean ... said the observed air-sea heat flux data used in the model isn’t as robust as sea surface temperatures, so the study ...

These include sea surface temperature ... on an indicator called the "sea-air heat flux," which simulates the exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere. Should the AMOC weaken ...

A research team from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a phenomenon that, despite rising sea surface temperatures ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ... The ...

Only some 60 million years old, Europa's brittle surface appears to be in constant flux. Energy-rich compounds there could reach the ocean as pieces of the crust slide under each other.