Atmospheric River Storms Create $1 Billion-a-Year Flood Damage
December 4, 2019
Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a study released today.
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Explosion in Plastic Pollution Post-World War II Seen in Marine Sediments
September 4, 2019
The amount of plastic fragments in Santa Barbara Basin sediments has been increasing exponentially since the end of World War II, according to a study by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.
Ross Sea Floats Show Why Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf Melts Rapidly in Summer
July 22, 2019
A new study in Antarctic waters has found a significant decrease of salinity, or freshening of the seawater surrounding the Ross Ice Shelf, indicating that ice shelf melt is caused by warming surface waters following sea ice disappearance.
A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role
July 22, 2019
Destructive free radicals exist in marine ecosystems and are thought to degrade the cells of phytoplankton and other organisms. A new paper, however, suggests that these molecules actually play a beneficial role, upending some conventional wisdom.
Atmospheric Rivers to Become Even More Dominant Source of California Water Resources and Flooding
July 9, 2019
California already has the most volatile water resources in the country. Scripps scientists discovered that the state’s precipitation, as it becomes less frequent but preferentially stronger, will vacillate even more wildly between extremes of drought and flooding as a consequence of climate change.
Mysterious Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice Explained by Years of Robotic Data
June 10, 2019
For the first time oceanographers monitored a polynya – or gap – in Antarctic winter sea ice. It was an opportunity that came about as a result of uncanny timing and a seasoned Scripps oceanographer’s knowledge of the sea.
Researchers Locate Source of Banned Chemical Emissions
May 23, 2019
A research group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego is part of an international team of scientists that has located the geographic origin of emissions of a chemical banned by the Montreal Protocol.
Deep Ocean Warming at an Accelerating Rate
March 6, 2019
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and NOAA who analyzed data from deep-diving ocean robots and research cruises say deep South Pacific waters originating from Antarctica are warming three times faster than they were in the 1990s.
New Scale to Characterize Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric River Storms
February 5, 2019
A team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of “atmospheric rivers,” long narrow bands of atmospheric water vapor pushed along by strong winds.
New Scale to Characterize Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric River Storms
February 5, 2019
A team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of “atmospheric rivers,” long narrow bands of atmospheric water vapor pushed along by strong winds.
