Line W is an array of five moorings that has been monitoring changes in two currents that play important roles in regulating Earth's climate: the Gulf Stream (orange area) and the Deep Western Boundary Current hugging the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. Line W aligns with the GUSTO mooring, which is monitoring the Gulf Stream, and Station S off Bermuda, where researchers have taken ocean measurements every two weeks since the 1950s.[back]
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