The Oceans Have Their Own Weather Systems The Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition (EDDIES) project was born Into the eye of the oceanic storm “Dennis has wanted to do this experiment since he was a graduate student,” said Dave Siegel, a longtime collaborator with McGillicuddy and an oceanographer from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Sharks Take ‘Tunnels’ into the Depths - Woods Hole Oceanographic . . . The warm eddies may provide a solution “These eddies spin downward and inject warm water deeper into the ocean,” Braun said For white sharks trying to grab a meal, it’s an efficient way to save energy The eddies act “sort of like highways of warm water that might help connect them from the surface to farther down in the ocean ”
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
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
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 ()
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 ”