Welcome to the website for the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS).
The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton is the integrated collaboration between the Southampton-based part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s National Oceanography Centre and the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science, both based the jointly-owned and shared facilities at the Waterfront Campus on the city’s Empress Dock.
The University of Southampton is a hosting partner of the National Oceanography Centre, which is a new, national research organisation created on 1st April 2010, delivering integrated marine science and technology from the coast to the deep ocean, working in partnership with the UK marine research community. More information about the NOCS Graduate School.
News and information on integrated activities at Southampton taking place through the partnership between NOC and the University of Southampton can be viewed at http://noc.ac.uk.
News
Why do Earth’s storm tracks differ from those of Jupiter?Computer simulations show that both ocean dynamics, such as the Gulf Stream, and mountain ranges influence the pattern of storm tracks on Earth. This also explains why Earth’s storm tracks are so different from those on the gas giant Jupiter. Storm tracks are regions where swirling eddies are concentrated. On Jupiter, eddies gather into belts at particular latitudes, meaning that the storm tracks circle the planet symmetrically. But on Earth the storm tracks in the atmosphere, corresponding to regions where weather is highly variable, do not circle the planet uniformly. Although Earth’s storm tracks broadly occupy the mid-latitudes, they contain both tilt and along-stream variability in strength. To understand how weather patterns will change in a future climate, we need to understand what mechanisms ... Read More |
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