Mesoscale eddies, oceanic swirling currents with typical horizontal scales of 10-100 kilometres in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a vital role in marine ecosystems.

Ocean eddies and circulation dynamics form a cornerstone of modern oceanographic research, with mesoscale eddies playing a critical role in the redistribution of heat, salinity and biogeochemical ...

Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with potentially “far-reaching implications” for global sea level rise, according to a recent ...

Far from shore and hidden beneath the waves, scientists are tracking swirling columns of water that behave like slow-motion tornadoes in the sea. These spinning features, known as ocean eddies, are ...

A UNSW academic’s innovative research uses ocean currents to optimise shipping routes and reduce the environmental impact of sea transport. Each day more than 50,000 cargo ships ply the world’s oceans ...

Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the thinning ice cover, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are becoming far more ...