Ocean Sciences

Research Cruise in times of COVID-19

Nora Fried August 11, 2020

Beautiful day of mooring work on board R/V Pelagia in the Irminger Sea.

While the whole world is on stand-by we are in the middle of the North Atlantic and I want to explain you, why! During those crazy times cruise planning also slightly changes. The original plan was to depart and arrive back in Reykjavik which would have only included a short transit to our research area, the OSNAP East section. In the end we had a 9 day transit from our homeport Texel, Netherlands ...[Read More]

Why do mesoscale eddies disappear at ocean western boundaries?

Gwyn Evans August 4, 2020

The R/V F.G. Walton Smith docked at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science campus of the University of Miami. (Fig. 1; credit: Gwyn Evans)

In the ocean, mesoscale eddies are everywhere. In fact, about 90% of the ocean’s kinetic energy is contained within these ubiquitous, ~100 km swirling vortices. We know how these eddies form, through a process known as baroclinic instability, where density surfaces are tilted too steeply and become unstable. What remains unclear however, is what happens to this energy when eddies die. This knowled ...[Read More]

OceanTalk with Frédéric Le Moigne

Meriel Bittner July 28, 2020

Frédéric Le Moigne has been awarded the 2020 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for the Division of Ocean Sciences and he agreed to be interviewed for our first blog post on the new Ocean Sciences blog. Frédéric can you tell us about your background and education? I was born and raised on the Atlantic coast, near the bay of Brest in Brittany, western France. In Brittany the ocean is an impor ...[Read More]

Welcome to the new Ocean Sciences Division blog!

Meriel Bittner July 28, 2020

Hello and welcome to the blog of the EGU Ocean Sciences Division! We are very excited to launch this new blog and finally join the EGU Blogsphere. Here we provide content of interest to the division and especially to the Early Career Scientists. This blog aims to spread our fascination for the ocean and share different aspects of ocean research. We will feature different types of blog articles, in ...[Read More]