Currents, Gyres, & Eddies
How moored profilers work
Moored profilers travel up and down a mooring cable every five days, measuring seawater properties. (Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole…
Read MoreOcean Robots: Open Ocean
The open ocean is vast and deep—something only an army of robotic Argo floats could begin to map in ways…
Read MoreHidden Currents in the Gulf of Mexico
By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online April 20, 2015
Read MoreLine W: A 10-year portrait of our planet
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online January 1, 2015
Read MoreThe Jetyak
Surprising Trigger Causes Phytoplankton Blooms in North Atlantic
By Lonny Lippsett :: Originally published online January 14, 2014
Read MoreTracking the Currents
Concern about the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill centered on the northern Gulf of Mexico, but some feared…
Read MoreWhat Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online December 23, 2008
Read MoreWarm Eddies in a Cold Sea
(Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Jack Cook, Kate Madin :: Originally published online November 30, 2007
Read MoreThe Ocean Conveyor
A global system of currents, often called the Ocean Conveyor, carries warm surface waters from the tropics northward. At high…
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