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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

31 Mar 2025 OS webinar: everything you want to know about the journal

Ocean Science celebrates its 20th birthday and it is growing! Do you wonder how the public peer review works? What are the tasks of the referees? What are the tasks of the editors? Are you considering becoming an editor yourself? Please read more.

31 Mar 2025 OS webinar: everything you want to know about the journal

Ocean Science celebrates its 20th birthday and it is growing! Do you wonder how the public peer review works? What are the tasks of the referees? What are the tasks of the editors? Are you considering becoming an editor yourself? Please read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

Highlight articles

20 Mar 2025
Decadal changes in phytoplankton functional composition in the Eastern English Channel: possible upcoming major effects of climate change
Zéline Hubert, Arnaud P. Louchart, Kévin Robache, Alexandre Epinoux, Clémentine Gallot, Vincent Cornille, Muriel Crouvoisier, Sébastien Monchy, and Luis Felipe Artigas
Ocean Sci., 21, 679–700, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-679-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-679-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
07 Feb 2025
Turbulent heat flux dynamics along the Dotson and Getz ice-shelf fronts (Amundsen Sea, Antarctica)
Blandine Jacob, Bastien Y. Queste, and Marcel D. du Plessis
Ocean Sci., 21, 359–379, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-359-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-359-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
04 Feb 2025
Internal tides off the Amazon shelf in the western tropical Atlantic: analysis of SWOT Cal/Val mission data
Michel Tchilibou, Loren Carrere, Florent Lyard, Clément Ubelmann, Gérald Dibarboure, Edward D. Zaron, and Brian K. Arbic
Ocean Sci., 21, 325–342, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-325-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-325-2025, 2025
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30 Jan 2025
Blending 2D topography images from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into the altimeter constellation with the Level-3 multi-mission Data Unification and Altimeter Combination System (DUACS)
Gerald Dibarboure, Cécile Anadon, Frédéric Briol, Emeline Cadier, Robin Chevrier, Antoine Delepoulle, Yannice Faugère, Alice Laloue, Rosemary Morrow, Nicolas Picot, Pierre Prandi, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, Matthias Raynal, Anaelle Tréboutte, and Clément Ubelmann
Ocean Sci., 21, 283–323, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-283-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-283-2025, 2025
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27 Jan 2025
The alongshore tilt of mean dynamic topography and its implications for model validation and ocean monitoring
Christoph Renkl, Eric C. J. Oliver, and Keith R. Thompson
Ocean Sci., 21, 181–198, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-181-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-181-2025, 2025
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Scheduled special issues

01 Oct 2024–31 Jul 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
15 Sep 2024–15 Sep 2025 | Matjaz Licer, Mélanie Juza, Thomas Froelicher, Serena Zunino, Antonio Ricchi, Yonggang Liu, Aida Alvera-Azcárate, Andrea Piñones, and OS editors | 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 2023–30 Jun 2025 | OS editors | Coordinator: Karen J. Heywood | Information
01 Jan 2023–indefinite | OS editors | Coordinator: Charles Stock | Information

Recent papers

31 Mar 2025
Solving dense shelf water cascading with a high-resolution ocean reanalysis
Helena Fos, Jesús Peña-Izquierdo, David Amblas, Marta Arjona-Camas, Laia Romero, Victor Estella-Pérez, Cristian Florindo-Lopez, Antoni Calafat-Frau, Marc Cerdà-Domènech, Pere Puig, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, and Anna Sanchez-Vidal
External preprint server, https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174060515.57729804/v2,https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174060515.57729804/v2, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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31 Mar 2025
ENSO-Driven Variability of Deep Ocean Circulation in the Southeast Pacific
Manuel Torres-Godoy, Oscar Pizarro, Boris Dewitte, and Vera Oerder
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1311,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1311, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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28 Mar 2025
Dense shelf-water and associated sediment transport in the Cap de Creus Canyon and adjacent shelf under mild winter regimes: insights from the 2021–2022 winter
Marta Arjona-Camas, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, François Bourrin, Helena Fos, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, and David Amblas
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1310,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1310, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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27 Mar 2025
Internal-wave-induced dissipation rates in the Weddell Sea Bottom Water gravity current
Ole Pinner, Friederike Pollmann, Markus Janout, Gunnar Voet, and Torsten Kanzow
Ocean Sci., 21, 701–726, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-701-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-701-2025, 2025
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27 Mar 2025
Abrupt meteorological changes reverse thermohaline features in the skin layer
Lisa Gassen, Samuel Mintah Ayim, Leonie Jaeger, Jens Meyerjürgens, Mariana Ribas-Ribas, and Oliver Wurl
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1307,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1307, 2025
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.