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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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13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

You have worked hard to get your results, analyse the data, and draw conclusions from your research topic. Now it is time to write up! Please find information on EGU's webinar "How to write a research paper" here.

13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

You have worked hard to get your results, analyse the data, and draw conclusions from your research topic. Now it is time to write up! Please find information on EGU's webinar "How to write a research paper" here.

12 Sep 2024 OS now at ResearchGate

Copernicus is pleased to announce a new collaboration with ResearchGate in the framework of ResearchGate's Journal Home programme. Please read Copernicus' official announcement and have a look at OS' profile page for more details.

12 Sep 2024 OS now at ResearchGate

Copernicus is pleased to announce a new collaboration with ResearchGate in the framework of ResearchGate's Journal Home programme. Please read Copernicus' official announcement and have a look at OS' profile page for more details.

Highlight articles

24 May 2024
Impact of Hurricane Irma on coral reef sediment redistribution at Looe Key Reef, Florida, USA
Kimberly K. Yates, Zachery Fehr, Selena Johnson, and David Zawada
Ocean Sci., 20, 661–688, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-661-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-661-2024, 2024
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15 Apr 2024
Resemblance of the global depth distribution of internal-tide generation and cold-water coral occurrences
Anna-Selma van der Kaaden, Dick van Oevelen, Christian Mohn, Karline Soetaert, Max Rietkerk, Johan van de Koppel, and Theo Gerkema
Ocean Sci., 20, 569–587, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-569-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-569-2024, 2024
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30 Nov 2023
Constraining an eddy energy dissipation rate due to relative wind stress for use in energy budget-based eddy parameterisations
Thomas Wilder, Xiaoming Zhai, David Munday, and Manoj Joshi
Ocean Sci., 19, 1669–1686, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1669-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1669-2023, 2023
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22 Nov 2023
Southern Ocean warming and Antarctic ice shelf melting in conditions plausible by late 23rd century in a high-end scenario
Pierre Mathiot and Nicolas C. Jourdain
Ocean Sci., 19, 1595–1615, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1595-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1595-2023, 2023
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28 Jun 2023
Dense water formation in the eastern Mediterranean under a global warming scenario
Iván M. Parras-Berrocal, Rubén Vázquez, William Cabos, Dimitry V. Sein, Oscar Álvarez, Miguel Bruno, and Alfredo Izquierdo
Ocean Sci., 19, 941–952, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-941-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-941-2023, 2023
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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, 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 Sep 2023–31 Dec 2024 | Antonio Ricchi, Giovanni Liguori, Matjaz Licer, Milena Menna, Clea Denamiel, Aida Alvera-Azcárate, Joanna Staneva, and John C. Warner | Information
01 Aug 2023–30 Jun 2025 | OS editors | Coordinator: Karen J. Heywood | Information

Recent papers

14 Oct 2024
Analyses of sea surface chlorophyll a trends and variability from 1998 to 2020 in the German Bight (North Sea)
Felipe de Luca Lopes de Amorim, Areti Balkoni, Vera Sidorenko, and Karen Helen Wiltshire
Ocean Sci., 20, 1247–1265, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1247-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1247-2024, 2024
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14 Oct 2024
Monsoonal influence on floating marine litter pathways in the Bay of Bengal
Lianne C. Harrison, Jennifer A. Graham, Piyali Chowdhury, Tiago A. M. Silva, Danja P. Hoehn, Alakes Samanta, Kunal Chakraborty, Sudheer Joseph, T. M. Balakrishnan Nair, and T. Srinivasa Kumar
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3096,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3096, 2024
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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11 Oct 2024
Importance of tides and winds in influencing the nonstationary behaviour of coastal currents in offshore Singapore
Jun Yu Puah, Ivan D. Haigh, David Lallemant, Kyle Morgan, Dongju Peng, Masashi Watanabe, and Adam D. Switzer
Ocean Sci., 20, 1229–1246, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1229-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1229-2024, 2024
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10 Oct 2024
Chlorophyll shading reduces zooplankton diel migration depth in a high-resolution physical biogeochemical model
Mathieu Antoine François Poupon, Laure Resplandy, Jessica Garwood, Charles Stock, Niki Zadeh, and Jessica Luo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3058,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3058, 2024
Preprint under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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09 Oct 2024
Ocean wave spectra bias correction through energy conservation for climate change impacts
Andrea Lira Loarca and Giovanni Besio
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2947,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2947, 2024
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.