Nitrogen gas dissolved in the ocean must be fixed — converted into more-reactive compounds — before it can be used to support life, but the regions in which this nitrogen fixation occurs have ...

An international team of scientists has found that changes to the Pacific Walker Circulation (PWC) — shifts in atmospheric patterns above the Pacific Ocean — have implications for weather events.

Significant El Niño pattern developing The International Sea Level Satellite, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, detected these 2-4 inch ripples in the ocean that extend for hundreds of miles.