Spills of liquid petroleum hydrocarbons are a growing concern worldwide, posing great risks to marine life and community services. Identifying and treating oil spills is operationally and scientifically challenging and compounded by the difficulty in accurately obtaining real-time measurements of the oil thickness slicks. Here, we present a method that allows precise real-time measurement of oil slick thickness, based on activ...

The large seasonal increases in marine photosynthetic organisms – i.e., phytoplankton blooms – are a ubiquitous oceanic phenomenon that contributes to the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and supports the growth of larger marine organisms. The underlying mechanisms controlling the intensity and timing of these blooms have been proposed to be dominated by vertical transport and mixing processes that are enhanced at...

We examine the probability density function (pdf) of current speeds at the DeepLev station located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near the central coast of Israel. The currents cover depths from the surface to over 1.3 km and span a period from November 2016 to March 2024. We estimate the parameters of three typical distributions that are usually used to model the pdfs of currents and wind speed: the Weibull, the general ext...