For his Ph.D. work in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Matt Mazloff merged
sparse observations of
the Southern Ocean with a state-of-the-art ocean circulation model to
produce estimates
of ocean conditions of greatly increased accuracy. The model can fill in the blanks to describe what's going on in places where no observations have been taken. This map shows the
speed of the clockwise Antarctic Circumpolar Current on May 12, 2006,
increasing from slow-moving water (blue) to water moving more than one mile per hour (dark red). This research was supported by the National
Ocean Partnership Program.
(Image courtesy of Matthew Mazloff, Source: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego)[back]
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