Today’s Spotlight features an image by Google Earth of the eastern seaboard and Massachusetts.
In certain parts of the ocean, towering, slow-motion rollercoasters called internal tides trundle along for miles, rising and falling hundreds of feet in the ocean’s interior, while making barely a ripple at the surface. These giant, hidden swells are responsible for alternately drawing warm surface waters down to the deep ocean and pulling marine nutrients up from the abyss.
Read the full article on MIT News.
In certain parts of the ocean, towering, slow-motion rollercoasters called internal tides trundle along for miles, rising and falling hundreds of feet in the ocean’s interior, while making barely a ripple at the surface. These giant, hidden swells are responsible for alternately drawing warm surface waters down to the deep ocean and pulling marine nutrients up from the abyss.
Read the full article on MIT News.