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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 ()
The Oceans Have Their Own Weather Systems - Woods Hole Oceanographic . . . The largest eddies can contain up to 1,200 cubic miles (5,000 cubic kilometers) of water and can last for months to a year Earth’s rotation—the Coriolis force—gives eddies their spin To hunt for their target, McGillicuddy and colleagues used data from satellites, whose measurements of sea surface heights show telltale signs of eddies
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…
The Influence of Nonlinear Mesoscale Eddies on Near-Surface Oceanic . . . he eddies consists of dipoles with extrema out-side of the eddy cores, rather than monopoles of positive or neg tive CHL anomalies trapped at the eddy centers Monopole structures with very active physical-biological interaction are some-times observed within eddy cores In contrast to the ubiquitous presence of rotational advec-tion around the
Experimental Observations of Baroclinic Eddies on a Sloping Bottom The oceanic eddies have a by Mory[1983, 1985], and Mory et al [1987] indicated that number of features that arecharacteristic of isolated eddies similareddies can be produced in a laboratoryturntable ex-and not characteristic of solitarywaves such as stronglo- periment but they possessed qualitative differences from the cal circulation, closed
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
Unseen Ocean – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Rather, this salty mélange comprises active currents, eddies, vortices, upwelling and downwelling, all of which help transport vital nutrients across the sea But unlike goliath ocean gyres, these processes take place at relatively smaller scales (about 10 kilometers [6 miles] across), known by oceanographers as the “submesoscale ”