Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA created a visualization of ocean current layers. Only now we can see them, or at least a visualization of them based on NASA ...

Visualization Vednesdays highlights graphics and movies created by professional scientists. Then I butt in explain the science behind the visual. I’ll be focusing on physical oceanography cause they ...

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a swath of water is doing something very strange. While the rest ...

Visualization Vednesdays highlights graphics and movies created by professional scientists and explains the science behind the visual. I’ll be focusing on physical oceanography cause they be my peeps, ...

With the development of various types of fixed marine observation equipment, satellite remote sensing technology, and computer simulation technology, modern marine scientific research has entered the ...

LOS ANGELES — Just last week, I looked at HINT.FM’s gorgeous wind mapping project. The wind, as we all know, is deeply intertwined the world over. But so is water. And in many ways, trying to imagine ...

The lines, curves, and whorls made by ocean currents in NASA's Perpetual Ocean video look like they were taken straight out of Vincent van Gogh's A Starry Night. All the pretty strokes came courtesy ...

This animation shows how sea surface temperatures have departed from the long-term average, from August through early October 2018. (Animation by climate.gov; data from NOAA’s Environmental ...

Data from NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory reveals how ocean currents are powered by changing temperatures throughout the year. The model traces the interconnected streams around the world ...