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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
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
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
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 ”