Flinders University oceanography experts have described a new kind of cyclone in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra after observing satellite surface winds in the region.
With the Arctic Ocean being twice as sensitive to rapid warming than the global average, evaporation and subsequent changes to the hydrological cycle over northern Eurasia will become even more pronounced in the years to come.
Understanding transport and transformation processes within the carbon cycle is essential to creating global carbon dioxide budgets and therefore also projections for global warming.
The 12-member mission team will conduct daily dives from 100 m to at least 500 m deep in two Triton submersibles to document the seafloor and fish communities at three locations in the archipelago.
After a near two-year "Microbiome" mission around the world, scientists had gathered thousands of samples of marine micro-organisms in a bid to better understand ocean plankton and pollution.
