The audio series that tracks the real-time swirl of creatures, chemicals and currents of our seas. An initiative of COSEE NOW.
We’re headed pretty far south to the seas spiraling around Antarctica.
Lynne Talley from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explained, “This is the only part of the ocean that has no land barrier all the way around. It connects the Atlantic to the Indian to the Pacific and back. It’s huge.”
Talley’s puzzling out the ocean’s circulation: basically how all that water gushes and surges and flushes around our planet. Have a listen.
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Infrared Antarctic composite image showing cloud cover with land outlines. Credit: Antarctic Meteorological Research Center.
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Lynne Talley seated near the Scripps pier in San Diego. Credit: Robert Benson.
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Salinity map of the Pacific Ocean with saltier (orange) and less salty (blue) water depicted. Credit: WOCE Atlas Volume 2.
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The Ocean Gazing podcast is hosted and produced by Ari Daniel.
Very interesting research!