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Gulf Stream brightness temperature from NASA
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Gulf Stream Slowed as Hurricanes Struck

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 12 February 201825 March 2024

Hurricanes Jose and Maria temporarily decelerated this powerful ocean current’s flow last year, according to data from an ocean glider that rode the stream between Florida and Massachusetts.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Two Paired Eddies Travel Faster and Further Than One

by J. Sprintall 2 February 201822 July 2022

The first observational evidence of dipole eddy pairs (modons) in the southern midlatitude ocean reveals that they move faster, live longer, and travel greater distances compared to single eddies.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Sloping Topography and Oceanic Surface Modes

by A. M. Hogg 21 November 201711 May 2022

An accurate understanding of the influence of ocean bottom topography helps to diagnose the velocities of subsurface currents.

Dissolved silicon in ocean sediment reveal the hidden past of Pacific currents
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Microfossils Illuminate Ancient Ocean Currents

Elizabeth Thompson by Elizabeth Thompson 23 October 20174 May 2022

Researchers use dissolved silicon concentrations to map out how currents may have changed millennia ago in the Pacific.

Scientists analyze the role of ocean eddies in phytoplankton populations
Posted inResearch Spotlights

World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters

by S. Witman 13 September 201729 September 2021

Oceanographers probe the impact of deep swirling vortices on phytoplankton.

: Researchers create a 66-year data record to see how El Niño impacts temperatures in the California Current System
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Powerful Pacific Forces Disrupt the California Current

by S. Witman 11 August 20176 October 2021

Scientists create a 66-year data record to shed light on the role of El Niño in the California Current System’s shifting temperatures.

Researchers analyze seafloor sediment cores to understand past behavior of the Black Current
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Sediment Cores Reveal Ocean Current’s Past Life

by S. Witman 28 July 20179 May 2023

East Asia’s Black Current may have rerouted in the past 10,000 years or so.

The Iceland–Faroe–Scotland Ridge and its role in the meridional overturning circulation.
Posted inScience Updates

Tracking Water Through the North Atlantic Ocean

by B. Berx, K. M. H. Larsen and T. Rossby 19 July 201723 December 2021

Workshop on Currents and Transports Across the Iceland-Faroe-Scotland Ridge; Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, 9–10 January 2017

Researchers model waves to understand how wind drives mixing in lake waters
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Does Wind Push Water?

by E. Underwood 22 June 20174 February 2022

A new 3-D model shows how wind affects hydrodynamic mixing in a northern Italian lake.

Researchers assess how a changing climate will influence ocean upwelling
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Will Climate Change Affect the California Current Upwelling?

by Terri Cook 15 June 20176 October 2021

The results of new simulations that account for internal climate variability contrast with previous projections of how this vital West Coast current will respond to anthropogenic warming.

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