Using NOAA's QuikSCAT satellite, MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kjetil V?ge compiled this image of a tip jet on Dec. 5, 2002, with winds speeds up to 37 meters per second (or 72 knots). Arrows indicate wind direction. White dot is location of Irminger Sea buoy. (Kjetil V?ge, MIT/WHOI Joint Program)[back]
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