Deep trouble: future seafloor marine heatwaves will surpass surface extremes
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Published: 20 August 2025
A PML study found that marine heatwaves on the seafloor will become over 50% more frequent than at the ocean surface during summer by century's end, posing severe risks to bottom-dwelling species on the European shelf.
Keywords: marine heatwaves, seafloor temperatures, climate change, European shelf, ocean warming, bottom-dwelling species, ecosystem impacts
2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Breakthrough Research on Real-Time Tsunami Forecasting
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: 20 November 2025
Researchers from UT Austin, LLNL, and Scripps won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for developing a digital twin tsunami forecasting system that compresses 50 years of computation to under one second using the El Capitan supercomputer.
Keywords: Gordon Bell Prize, tsunami forecasting, digital twin, Cascadia subduction zone, supercomputing, exascale computing, seismology
New research connects ocean salinity to atmospheric pressure and storm patterns
National Oceanography Centre
Published: 21 November 2025
NOC researchers found that freshwater anomalies in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre significantly affect atmospheric pressure and storm patterns over Eurasia, with implications for seasonal weather forecasting.
Keywords: ocean salinity, atmospheric pressure, storm patterns, subpolar gyre, freshwater anomaly, North Atlantic, AMOC, seasonal forecasting
