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Ocean Circulation - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Swirling parcels of water, called ocean eddies, spin off from the warm Gulf Stream, the powerful northward-flowing current that hugs the U S East Coast This visualization was generated by a numerical model that simulates ocean circulation
Currents, Gyres, Eddies - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution How the Ocean Works Diving in Eddies How the Ocean Works Following the Eddies How the Ocean Works Of Wings, Waves, and Winds “Great albatross! The meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to…
Five big discoveries from WHOI’s Ocean Twilight Zone Project Eddies—circular currents the size of a city—regularly develop in ocean waters around the globe The oceanic equivalent of an atmospheric storm, eddies of warm water provide pathways for large ocean predators to reach the twilight zone
Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Feedbacks in the Eastern Pacific; Gap Winds . . . W is ~±2-3 m day in the vicinity of cold filaments but generally small in the open ocean The ratio is largely 10-30% near the cold filaments Oceanic mesoscale eddies induce additional Wek through the observed relation This can potentially affect the evolution of oceanic mesoscale eddies (Vecchi et al 2004)
The Oceans Have Their Own Weather Systems The Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition (EDDIES) project was born Into the eye of the oceanic storm “Dennis has wanted to do this experiment since he was a graduate student,” said Dave Siegel, a longtime collaborator with McGillicuddy and an oceanographer from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
WHOI Arctic Group | Projects | Eddies Eddies in the Beaufort Gyre Associate Scientist, WHOI Supported by: This project used observations of velocity in the western Arctic pycnocline (25-300~m depth) made with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) to investigate the distribution and properties of subsurface eddies The ADCPs were deployed on autonomous drifters called, , that were frozen into the pack ice ()
Eddies Found to be Deep, Powerful Modes of Ocean Transport April 28, 2011 Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their colleagues have discovered that massive, swirling ocean eddies–known to be up to 500 kilometers across at the surface–can reach all the way to the ocean bottom at mid-ocean ridges, some 2,500 meters deep, transporting tiny sea creatures, chemicals, and heat from hydrothermal vents over large distances