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- Ocean | NASA Earthdata
The global ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface and contains 97 percent of the planet’s water Data collected by NASA’s Earth-observing instruments help scientists understand how the ocean supports a vast abundance of life, regulates the climate, provides a large amount of the planet’s oxygen, and stores an abundance of
- Ocean Topics - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The ocean matters The ocean covers more than two-thirds of Earth's surface, it makes life as we know it possible, and it sustains human society Yet the global ocean is largely unexplored and unknown What we do learn never ceases to amaze or to provoke more questions These topics will…
- Ocean Topic: Biological Carbon Pump - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The ocean’s so-called biological carbon pump removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it deep in the ocean on timescales that are important to the lifespan of humans The solubility carbon pump, which stores much larger amounts of carbon, operates on timescales in the thousands of years and is a much slower mixing process
- Oceans - Science News
Oceans Seafloor amber may hold hints of a tsunami 115 million years ago Oddly shaped deposits of tree resin point to massive waves that struck northern Japan roughly 115 million years ago and
- How the Ocean Works - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The ocean water column is made up of five zones: the sunlight (epipelagic), twilight (mesopelagic), midnight (bathypelagic), abyssal (abyssopelagic) and hadal zones (trenches) Abyssal Zone Hadal Zone
- What’s Living in the Ocean? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
In 2010, as the United States conducted its latest decadal population census, marine scientists completed their first census to discover the abundance, diversity, and distribution of organisms living in Earth's oceans Launched in 2000, the Census of Marine Life evolved into a $650 million project involving more than 2,700 researchers…
- Ocean Life - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Microbial life can be found throughout the ocean, from rocks and sediments beneath the seafloor, across the vast stretches of open water, to intertidal and surf zones Ocean Plants Ocean plants are critical to marine life—they are an important food source, they provide oxygen to surrounding marine life, and they supply refuge and nursery grounds
- Know Your Ocean - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Know Your Ocean The ocean covers more than 2 3 of Earth's surface and is a fundamental reason why life exists on Earth-but much of it remains unexplored and under-appreciated Coastal Ocean The sliver of ocean less than 200 meters (650 feet) deep near land accounts for just 7 percent of…
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