One of Scripps's longest-running data centers, serving reference-quality hydrographic ocean data to an international community for over 20 years The Global Ocean Biogeochemical float program supports ...

Description: Introduces descriptive and dynamical physical oceanography, focusing on the nature and dynamics of ocean currents and their role ... the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ...

Interactions between the ocean and atmosphere are responsible for global phenomena such as El Niño. Understanding ocean circulation and chemistry ... Students wishing to specialize in the Oceanography ...

The Arctic Ocean plays two roles in the global ocean circulation — it provides ... For details, see oceanography text books.) Various PV drivings have been suggested — the wind-stress in ...

The ocean plays a large role in cycling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Determining how much carbon is locked away in the ...

Ph.D., Biological and Physical Oceanography, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012 B.S., Marine Science, Ocean University of China, 2004 Coupled hydrodynamic-biogeochemical models; Estuarine ...

Noreen Garcia is a sixth-year PhD candidate studying marine chemistry and geochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, modern oceanography research was ... Since the 1980s, we have studied ocean circulation in the West Pacific, and initiated the ...

Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper ... trying to understand the exact dynamics and circulation pathways that determine how dense, cold water ...