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UK national research institute specializing in ocean and marine science, studying sea levels, currents, and climate-ocean interactions.
A glider recorded North Sea chlorophyll above 3 milligrams per cubic meter in a June 2023 heat wave, a bloom satellites largely missed. The National Oceanography Centre team says such changes can stay hidden from satellites.
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Researchers warn an internal Kelvin wave from this year's super El Niño could lift California sea levels by up to 30 cm once it reaches the coast. The raised water would add to winter storm surges, though the oceanographer quoted expects it to distort tides for weeks.
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Modelling of Scotland's Seagreen wind farm in Scientific Reports finds turbine foundations cool summer sea surfaces by about 0.1 to 0.3 degrees Celsius. How big that effect gets depends on season, tide and water layering, so the study recommends timing monitoring for strongly stratified periods.
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Andrea Baucon's team took more than 1,000 measurements of Paleodictyon burrows in Italy's Apennines and argues an unidentified marine arthropod made them. The case rests on tunnel geometry, because whatever builds similar mesh on today's seafloor has never been seen.
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A preprint says meltwater pulses are bending the jet stream toward western European heatwaves. It offers no size for the resulting model error, and another group disputes the cause.
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A Nature Climate Change study finds the same warming that leaves Atlantic currents intact near 5.5C if reached slowly can tip them at 2C at today's emissions rate.
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