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Ocean Science An interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union
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  • IF value: 2.289 IF 2.289
  • IF 5-year value: 2.756 IF 5-year
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  • CiteScore value: 2.76 CiteScore
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  • SNIP value: 1.050 SNIP 1.050
  • SJR value: 1.554 SJR 1.554
  • IPP value: 2.65 IPP 2.65
  • h5-index value: 30 h5-index 30
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Executive editors: William Jenkins, Eric J.M. Delhez, John M. Huthnance, Trevor McDougall & Anne Marie Tréguier
Ocean Science (OS) is a not-for-profit international open-access scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications, and review papers on all aspects of ocean science: experimental, theoretical, and laboratory. The primary objective is to publish a very high-quality scientific journal with free Internet-based access for researchers and other interested people throughout the world.
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28 May 2019
Impacts of Three Gorges Dam's operation on spatial–temporal patterns of tide–river dynamics in the Yangtze River estuary, China
Huayang Cai, Xianyi Zhang, Min Zhang, Leicheng Guo, Feng Liu, and Qingshu Yang
Ocean Sci., 15, 583-599, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-583-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-583-2019, 2019
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11 Jan 2019
Atmospheric histories, growth rates and solubilities in seawater and other natural waters of the potential transient tracers HCFC-22, HCFC-141b, HCFC-142b, HFC-134a, HFC-125, HFC-23, PFC-14 and PFC-116
Pingyang Li, Jens Mühle, Stephen A. Montzka, David E. Oram, Benjamin R. Miller, Ray F. Weiss, Paul J. Fraser, and Toste Tanhua
Ocean Sci., 15, 33-60, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-33-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-33-2019, 2019
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29 Nov 2018
What can seabirds tell us about the tide?
Matthew Cooper, Charles Bishop, Matthew Lewis, David Bowers, Mark Bolton, Ellie Owen, and Stephen Dodd
Ocean Sci., 14, 1483-1490, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1483-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1483-2018, 2018
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19 Nov 2018
From sea ice to seals: a moored marine ecosystem observatory in the Arctic
Claudine Hauri, Seth Danielson, Andrew M. P. McDonnell, Russell R. Hopcroft, Peter Winsor, Peter Shipton, Catherine Lalande, Kathleen M. Stafford, John K. Horne, Lee W. Cooper, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Andrew Mahoney, Klara Maisch, Molly McCammon, Hank Statscewich, Andy Sybrandy, and Thomas Weingartner
Ocean Sci., 14, 1423-1433, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1423-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1423-2018, 2018
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27 Sep 2018
World Ocean Circulation Experiment – Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology
Viktor Gouretski
Ocean Sci., 14, 1127-1146, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1127-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1127-2018, 2018
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17 Jun 2019
On the role of the seawater absorption-to-attenuation ratio in the radiance polarization above the southern Baltic surface
Włodzimierz Freda, Kamila Haule, and Sławomir Sagan
Ocean Sci., 15, 745-759, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-745-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-745-2019, 2019
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17 Jun 2019
Two typical merging events of oceanic mesoscale anticyclonic eddies
Zi-Fei Wang, Liang Sun, Qiu-Yang Li, and Hao Cheng
Ocean Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-67,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-67, 2019
Manuscript under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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14 Jun 2019
Circulation changes in the Amundsen Basin from 1991 to 2015 revealed from distributions of dissolved 230Th
Ole Valk, Michiel M. Rutgers van der Loeff, Walter Geibert, Sandra Gdaniec, S. Bradley Moran, Kate Lepore, Robert Lawrence Edwards, Yanbin Lu, Viena Puigcorbé, Nuria Casacuberta, Ronja Paffrath, William Smethie, and Matthieu Roy-Barman
Ocean Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-49,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-49, 2019
Manuscript under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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13 Jun 2019
Analysis of the effect of fish oil on wind waves and implications for air–water interaction studies
Alvise Benetazzo, Luigi Cavaleri, Hongyu Ma, Shumin Jiang, Filippo Bergamasco, Wenzheng Jiang, Sheng Chen, and Fangli Qiao
Ocean Sci., 15, 725-743, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-725-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-725-2019, 2019
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12 Jun 2019
The Impact of Upwelling on the Intensification of Anticyclonic Ocean Eddies in the Caribbean Sea
Carine G. van der Boog, Julie D. Pietrzak, Henk A. Dijkstra, Nils Brüggemann, René M. van Westen, Rebecca K. James, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Riccardo E. M. Riva, D. Cornelis Slobbe, Roland Klees, Marcel Zijlema, and Caroline A. Katsman
Ocean Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-51,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-51, 2019
Manuscript under review for OS (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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16 Jan 2019 SUB Göttingen and Copernicus Publications introduced the National Consortium for Central Payment Processing of Article Processing Charges on 1 January 2019

14 scientific institutions have joined the national opt-in consortium for the central payment processing of APCs for articles of all journals published by Copernicus Publications.

16 Jan 2019 Institutional Agreement between Iowa State University Library and Copernicus Publications

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16 Jan 2019 Institutional Agreement between Iowa State University Library and Copernicus Publications

Iowa State University Library and Copernicus Publications have signed an agreement on the central billing of article processing charges (APCs) to facilitate the publication procedure for authors.

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