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Posted: 26 November 2024
Atmospheric dust anomaly. Data source Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service/ECMWF. Increasing drought events in southern Africa could benefit Indian Ocean marine life and atmospheric carbon removal, according to a new study of the Madagascar Bloom – one of the world’s...
Posted: 21 November 2024
In the early 20th century most measurements were of the temperature of water samples taken in canvas buckets. Expert knowledge of how early sea surface temperature measurements were taken has helped to explain a cold anomaly in early 20th century climate data. The cold period, between 1900 and 1930, has...
Posted: 12 November 2024
The sun's glint beams across the English Channel and the North Sea. Photo taken from the International Space Station. Image from NASA Johnson. A new study by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton has revealed where marine heatwave events are most likely to occur in UK waters, for the first time. With climate change...
Posted: 5 November 2024
Dr Veerle Huvenne and Dr Filipa Carvalho Two new chief scientists have been appointed to the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems (MARS) Group.  Dr Veerle Huvenne and Dr Filipa Carvalho will...
Posted: 1 November 2024
Socio-oceanography Workshop co-convenor Dr Katya Popova. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is calling on scientists and researchers to participate in its fourth annual Socio-Oceanography Workshop, hosted in collaboration with the Marine Social Science...
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