The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

The melting of the immense ice sheets that once covered our planet profoundly altered ocean levels at the end of the last ice ...

Physical oceanography examines the motions, properties and processes that influence the world’s oceans. It is concerned with currents, waves, tides, internal mixing and the exchanges that occur both ...