Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safe...

High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence

The use of artificial intelligence, and the deep-learning subtype in particular, has been enabled by the use of labeled big data, along with markedly enhanced computing power an...

AutoDock Vina 1.2.0: New Docking Methods, Expanded Force Field, and Python Bindings

AutoDock Vina is arguably one of the fastest and most widely used open-source programs for molecular docking. However, compared to other programs in the AutoDock Suite, it lacks...

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions

All currently available climate models predict a near-surface warming trend under the influence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In addition to the direct...

Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991

Abrupt Climate Change

Large, abrupt, and widespread climate changes with major impacts have occurred repeatedly in the past, when the Earth system was forced across thresholds. Although abrupt climat...

Increased activity of northern vegetation inferred from atmospheric CO2 measurements

Decadal-scale climate variability in the tropical and North Pacific during the 1970s and 1980s: observations and model results

Latent and Sensible Heat Flux Anomalies over the Northern Oceans: The Connection to Monthly Atmospheric Circulation

The influence of the atmospheric circulation on monthly anomalies of ocean surface latent and sensible heat fluxes is explored. The fluxes are estimated using bulk formulas appl...

Bacterial Populations in Sea Water as Determined by Different Methods of Enumeration1

Five different cultural and two direct microscopic methods were employed for estimating the abundance of bacteria in samples of sea water collected from both oceanic and neritic...