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Co-editors-in-chief: Karen J. Heywood, Mario Hoppema, Bernadette Sloyan & Anne Marie Treguier
eISSN: OS 1812-0792, OSD 1812-0822

Ocean Science (OS) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies investigating the ocean's physical, biogeochemical and biological and ecosystem properties and processes. Ocean Science publishes studies with important implications for our understanding of the state and behaviour of the ocean, its impacts on and responses to climate, including coupling at the ocean–atmosphere, ocean–sea ice–ice sheet and ocean–coast (land) interfaces.

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News

04 Sep 2025 New OS Letter: Synoptic observation of a full mesoscale eddy lifetime and its secondary instabilities in the Gulf of Mexico

Oceanic eddies are giant swirling currents that help transport heat, nutrients, and pollutants across the ocean. However, their life cycle has never been observed in detail. Using new satellite data, the author tracked an intense eddy in the Gulf of Mexico, describing its life cycle from birth during a 6-month period. Please read more.

04 Sep 2025 New OS Letter: Synoptic observation of a full mesoscale eddy lifetime and its secondary instabilities in the Gulf of Mexico

Oceanic eddies are giant swirling currents that help transport heat, nutrients, and pollutants across the ocean. However, their life cycle has never been observed in detail. Using new satellite data, the author tracked an intense eddy in the Gulf of Mexico, describing its life cycle from birth during a 6-month period. Please read more.

25 Apr 2025 20 years of Ocean Science: journal reception at EGU25

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of OS, we invite you to a reception at the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna, taking place Tuesday, 29 April, 20:00–22:00 in Foyer M. We look forward to seeing you!

25 Apr 2025 20 years of Ocean Science: journal reception at EGU25

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of OS, we invite you to a reception at the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna, taking place Tuesday, 29 April, 20:00–22:00 in Foyer M. We look forward to seeing you!

Highlight articles

02 Oct 2025
The coupled oxygen and carbon dynamics in the subsurface waters of the Gulf and Lower St. Lawrence Estuary and implications for artificial oxygenation
William A. Nesbitt, Samuel W. Stevens, Alfonso O. Mucci, Lennart Gerke, Toste Tanhua, Gwénaëlle Chaillou, and Douglas W. R. Wallace
Ocean Sci., 21, 2179–2195, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2179-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2179-2025, 2025
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17 Sep 2025
The historical representation and near-future (2050) projections of the Coral Sea current system in CMIP6 HighResMIP
Jodie A. Schlaefer, Clothilde Langlais, Severine Choukroun, Mathieu Mongin, and Mark E. Baird
Ocean Sci., 21, 2001–2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2001-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2001-2025, 2025
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05 Aug 2025
Subsurface manifestation of marine heat waves in the southwestern Indian Ocean
Clea B. Welch, Neil Malan, Daneeja Mawren, Tamaryn Morris, Janet Sprintall, and Juliet C. Hermes
Ocean Sci., 21, 1695–1708, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1695-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1695-2025, 2025
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07 Jul 2025
Local versus far-field control on South Pacific Subantarctic mode water variability
Ciara Pimm, Andrew J. S. Meijers, Dani C. Jones, and Richard G. Williams
Ocean Sci., 21, 1237–1253, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1237-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1237-2025, 2025
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25 Jun 2025
The satellite chlorophyll signature of Lagrangian eddy trapping varies regionally and seasonally within a subtropical gyre
Alexandra E. Jones-Kellett and Michael J. Follows
Ocean Sci., 21, 1141–1166, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1141-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1141-2025, 2025
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Scheduled special issues

01 Oct 2025–01 Oct 2027 | Carol Robinson (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom), Mario Hoppema (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany), and OS editors | Information
01 Oct 2024–31 Oct 2025 | Sanja Frka (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia), Peter S. Liss (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom), Klaus Jürgens (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany), and Xinping Hu (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, United States) | Information
14 Aug 2024–31 Dec 2025 | Charitha Pattiaratchi (University of Western Australia, Australia), Annunziata Pirro (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, Italy), Filipa Carvalho (National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom), Ilker Fer (University of Bergen, Norway), Luc Rainville (University of Washington, United States), and OS editors | Information
01 Aug 2023–31 Dec 2025 | OS editors | Coordinator: Karen J. Heywood | Information
01 Jan 2023–indefinite | OS editors | Coordinator: Charles Stock | Information

Recent papers

16 Oct 2025
Mechanisms of warm-water intrusions onto the West Spitsbergen Shelf during winter
Lukas Frank, Jon Albretsen, Ragnheid Skogseth, Frank Nilsen, and Marius O. Jonassen
Ocean Sci., 21, 2419–2442, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2419-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2419-2025, 2025
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15 Oct 2025
Disentangling Physical Forcings Influencing Exchange Flow in a Multi-basin Fjord System: Chiloé Inner Sea, Patagonia
Elias Pinilla and Lauren Ross
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4893,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4893, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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15 Oct 2025
Response of the Nordic Seas to the 2–6 February 2020 Marine Cold Air Outbreak in the GLORYS12 Ocean Reanalysis
Svenya Chripko, Thomas Spengler, Stefanie Semper, and Kjetil Våge
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4944,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4944, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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14 Oct 2025
Passive acoustic monitoring from profiling floats as a pathway to scalable autonomous observations of global surface wind
Louise Delaigue, Pierre Cauchy, Dorian Cazau, Julien Bonnel, Sara Pensieri, Roberto Bozzano, Anatole Gros-Martial, Christophe Schaeffer, Arnaud David, Paco Stil, Antoine Poteau, Catherine Schmechtig, Edouard Leymarie, and Hervé Claustre
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4174,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4174, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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13 Oct 2025
Chlorophyll-a Variation Trends in Marginal Seas: Assessing the Impact of Global warming and Anthropogenic Activities Using Time Series Satellite Data (1998–2020)
Nan Yao, Xiaoyu Zhang, Lei Bi, Shuchang Ma, Andrew B. Cundy, Haiyan Jin, and Renyi Liu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4558,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4558, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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