Vertical mixing is an important factor in determining the temperature, sharpness and depth of the equatorial Pacific thermocline, which are critical to the development of El Ninõ and Southern ...

Researchers looking at corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have found records linking a profound shift in the depth of the division between warm surface water and colder, deeper water ...

Most anglers have likely heard the words "thermocline" and "turnover" associated with local fishing reports and dock talk. Both result from thermal stratification, an annual occurrence at a majority ...

The constant heavy rain systems that plagued Kentucky all spring and early summer finally abated over the past few weeks. For the first time in two years, the brown, withered grass of late summer is a ...

In my never-ending quest to catch the next pesky fish, I dig up an awful lot of information, which is one of the really great things about trying to be a good fisherman. I figure the better I ...

Figure 2: Global maps of nutrient properties mapped on the potential density surface σ θ = 26.80. High nutrients in the surface waters of the Southern Ocean where SAMW forms cause this water type to ...

As rain-free skies finally cleared sufficiently to let the sun shine for more than two or three days in a row this month, our average air temperatures have increased, and our local lakes’ surface ...

Each summer our local reservoirs begin to stratify with the warmest water near the surface and with the coldest water near the bottom. This stratification occurs because the warmer water becomes, the ...

The lower St. Johns River basin is an estuary with all the typical characteristics of a semi-enclosed body of water, open to the ocean and diluted with freshwater. That fact has been discussed ...

The lengthy branches of the brushpile reached several feet upward. On my sonar, the limbs looked like arms cradling what I suspected were crappies. Confident that my boat was over fish 20 feet down, I ...