Computer simulations reveal hurricane currents can knock down surface wave heights

Using advanced computer simulations, researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) ...
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Ocean current could COLLAPSE this century because of climate change

In the 2004 film 'The Day After Tomorrow', most of Earth's northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth's system of ocean currents collapses. Although consigned to the world of sci ...

Critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age, microfossils suggest

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...
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Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our study shows Africa’s seas have some of the strongest

How can open ocean currents generate energy? Ocean currents contain kinetic energy that can be converted to electrical power using turbines. This is similar to offshore wind farms, or wind turbines ...
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Ocean current expected to warm - and could drive up sea level rise, study finds

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...
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Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our study shows Africa’s seas have some of the strongest

James H. VanZwieten Jr. receives funding from the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy. Gabriel Alsenas receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, National Science ...