After sending a fleet of self-sailing drones into the path of Hurricane Sam to help improve forecast models, Saildrone has now launched three uncrewed surface vehicles into the Gulf Stream winter ...

That would be the Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current that flows up the east coast of Florida. While its speed and location fluctuate, the current can reach speeds over 5 miles per hour at the ...

For a century, schoolchildren have been taught that the massive ocean current known as the Gulf Stream carries warm water from the tropical Atlantic Ocean to northwestern Europe. As it arrives ...

Could climate change cause the collapse of a critical ocean current that influences everything from sea levels in South Florida to monsoons in the Pacific and temperatures in Europe? On Tuesday ...

Gulf Stream Leaves Its Signature Seven Miles High Date: March 24, 2008 Source: University of Hawaii at Manoa Summary: The Gulf Stream's impact on climate is well known, keeping Iceland and ...

The Gulf of Maine has been warming three and a half times faster than the global average for decades. This summer it's still warming, but not with the off-the-charts numbers seen in the rest of ...

Could climate change cause the collapse of a critical ocean current that influences everything from sea levels in South Florida to monsoons in the Pacific and temperatures in Europe? On Tuesday ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers. The warming atmosphere is causing an arm of the powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear.

Just as the Gulf Stream controls the motion of the ocean along North America’s east coast, the Kuroshio Current and Extension form the main western boundary current as part of the North Pacific ...

The second-largest ocean on Earth, the Atlantic drives our weather patterns, including hurricanes, and is home to many species from sea turtles to dolphins.

University of Miami scientists will monitor conditions in the Florida Current, a piece of the Gulf Stream that feeds into another key current that helps distribute heat throughout the Atlantic Ocean.

Of this, a small fraction is currently on the seafloor — the rest was swept up by the Kuroshio current, a western Pacific version of the Gulf Stream, and carried out to sea where it mixed with ...