Water Temperature

Climate scientists see the potential for future years to land among the ten hottest, based on a refined method to calculate yearly global rankings.

Ocean heat content reaches its highest level in the modern observational record.

NOAA scientists study the Gulf Stream and find it demonstrates amazing, long-term resilience.

Scientific partners contribute to a sustained effort to understand the underlying factors driving global climate change.

A team of NOAA researchers took a closer look, literally, at a data-rich region in the Atlantic Ocean to examine ocean phenomena.

A new study proposes using ocean heat content and sea level rise data to track global warming.

Journal of Climate releases a paper about a new version of an important dataset, ERSST, used widely to study ocean temperatures.

The World Ocean Database holds a broad array of measurements for studies of the ocean and Earth’s atmosphere.

Less than 100 years ago, scientists and sailors used ordinary wooden buckets to measure sea surface temperatures.

A new study about the ocean’s heat content in the journal Science Advances supports evidence of global warming.