A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map ... Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail, a new study reveals. . The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water ...

On the surface, ocean currents are driven by winds and ... As Earth rotates, you can see how the shape of continents influences current flows. The map then highlights significant currents such ...

While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones — called submesoscale eddies — are notoriously ...

Despite appearances, that surface is not flat ... SWOT will continue to collect data on ocean currents, map the ocean floor and assess global freshwater availability throughout the year.

Scientists registered each found toy into the Ocean Surface Currents Simulation (OSCAR), a computer model that combines data ...

Large-scale wind patterns around the globe drag ocean surface waters with them, creating complex currents ... out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from the ...

The satellite carries an instrument that will map variations in the height ... be used to measure the real-time movement of currents at the ocean surface. The voyage is part of a huge ...