OS – Special issue – Ocean Science Jubilee: reviews and perspectives

Editor(s): OS editors | Coordinator: Karen J. Heywood

In 2024–2025 Ocean Science will be 20 years old, during which time it has been internationally at the forefront of high-quality, open-access, and open-peer-review publishing in our field of science. To celebrate this jubilee, we are publishing a special collection of “reviews and perspectives” papers, looking back at how ocean sciences have advanced over the last 20 years and looking forward to how they might advance over the next 20 years. The Ocean Science Jubilee special issue is a compilation of influential papers across the broad range of ocean science topics covered by the journal. Accepted reviews and perspectives papers may also be included in the https://encyclopedia-of-geosciences.net/.

21 Oct 2026

The circulation and water mass (trans)formations in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea and their implications for the deep ocean circulation: a narrative

Bert Rudels and Eddy Carmack

Ocean Sci., 22, 3287–3346, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-3287-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-3287-2026, 2026

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22 Jun 2026

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Estuarine mixing

Hans Burchard, Knut Klingbeil, Xiangyu Li, Lloyd Reese, and W. Rockwell Geyer

Ocean Sci., 22, 1875–1918, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1875-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1875-2026, 2026

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28 May 2026

Ocean salinity across space-time scales: from water cycle indicator to dynamical driver

Lisan Yu

Ocean Sci., 22, 1651–1679, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1651-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1651-2026, 2026

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11 May 2026

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Modelling primary production: multitude of theories, or multitude of languages?

Jozef Skákala, Shubha Sathyendranath, Yuri Artioli, Deep S. Banerjee, Heather Bouman, Robert J. W. Brewin, Momme Butenschön, Stefano Ciavatta, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Yanna Fidai, David Ford, Grinson George, Karen Guihou, Bror Jönsson, Marija Bačeković Koloper, Žarko Kovač, Lekshmi Krishnakumary, Gemma Kulk, Charlotte Laufkötter, Gennadi Lessin, Jann Paul Mattern, Angélique Melet, Alexandre Mignot, David Moffat, Fanny Monteiro, Mayra Rodriguez Bennadji, Cécile S. Rousseaux, Ranjini Swaminathan, Osvaldo Ulloa, and Jerry Tjiputra

Ocean Sci., 22, 1457–1481, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1457-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1457-2026, 2026

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10 Apr 2026

Distributed optical fibre sensing in physical oceanography: emergence and future prospects

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Carl P. Spingys, Andrew J. Lucas, Tiago S. Dotto, Christian T. Wild, Scott W. Tyler, Ted A. Scambos, Christopher B. Kratt, Giuseppe Cappelli, Ethan F. Williams, Mariona Claret, Hannah E. Glover, Meagan E. Wengrove, Madison M. Smith, Michael G. Baker, Giuseppe Marra, Max Tamussino, Zitong Feng, David Lloyd, Liam Taylor, Mikael Mazur, Maria-Daphne Mangriotis, Aaron Micallef, Jennifer Ward Neale, Oleg A. Godin, Matthew H. Alford, Emma P. M. Gregory, Michael A. Clare, Hamid Shiri, Angel Ruiz Angulo, Kathryn L. Gunn, Ben I. Moat, Isobel A. Yeo, Afonso Loureiro, Alessandro Silvano, Arthur Hartog, and Mohammad Belal

Ocean Sci., 22, 1129–1167, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1129-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-1129-2026, 2026

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20 Mar 2026

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Thermodynamic concepts used in physical oceanography

Trevor J. McDougall

Ocean Sci., 22, 923–960, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-923-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-923-2026, 2026

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05 Feb 2026

Review: The Greater Agulhas Current System – Circulation, Variability, Long-term Trends and Impacts on Weather, Climate and Ecosystems

Issufo Halo, Tarron Lamont, Michael Hart-Davis, Pierrick Penven, Isabelle Ansorge, Chris Reason, Bjorn Backeberg, Siren Rühs, Erik van Sebille, Christo Whittle, Annette Samuelsen, Johnny Johannessen, Tamaryn Morris, Marjolaine Krug, Juliet Hermes, Marek Ostrowski, Sheveenah Taukoor, and Babatunde Abiodun

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6573,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6573, 2026

Preprint under review for OS (discussion: final response, 2 comments)

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11 Dec 2025

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Silicification in the ocean: from molecular pathways to silicifiers' ecology and biogeochemical cycles

Ivia Closset, J. Jotautas Baronas, Fiorenza Torricella, Félix de Tombeur, Bianca T. P. Liguori, Alessandra Petrucciani, Natasha Bryan, María López-Acosta, Yelena Churakova, Antonia U. Thielecke, Zhouling Zhang, Natalia Llopis Monferrer, Rebecca A. Pickering, Mathis Guyomard, and Dongdong Zhu

Ocean Sci., 21, 3427–3470, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3427-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3427-2025, 2025

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26 Nov 2025

An overview of the ocean data ecosystem

Maya Bloch Haimson, Yoav Lehahn, and Tomer Sagi

Ocean Sci., 21, 3131–3164, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3131-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3131-2025, 2025

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05 Aug 2025

Marine data assimilation in the UK: the past, the present, and the vision for the future

Jozef Skákala, David Ford, Keith Haines, Amos Lawless, Matthew J. Martin, Philip Browne, Marcin Chrust, Stefano Ciavatta, Alison Fowler, Daniel Lea, Matthew Palmer, Andrea Rochner, Jennifer Waters, Hao Zuo, Deep S. Banerjee, Mike Bell, Davi M. Carneiro, Yumeng Chen, Susan Kay, Dale Partridge, Martin Price, Richard Renshaw, Georgy Shapiro, and James While

Ocean Sci., 21, 1709–1734, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1709-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1709-2025, 2025

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14 Jul 2025

Satellite altimetry and operational oceanography: from Jason-1 to SWOT

Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Gérald Dibarboure, Jean-Michel Lellouche, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, Mounir Benkiran, Marie Drevillon, Yann Drillet, Yannice Faugère, and Elisabeth Remy

Ocean Sci., 21, 1329–1347, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1329-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1329-2025, 2025

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29 Oct 2024

TEOS-10 and the climatic relevance of ocean–atmosphere interaction

Rainer Feistel

Ocean Sci., 20, 1367–1402, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1367-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1367-2024, 2024

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