Image: Anti-cyclonic warm core eddy
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Description: This schematic shows an idealized eddy in the Gulf of Alaska. "Isotherms" are lines connecting points of equal temperature, as on a weather map. Warm, nutrient-rich coastal water spirals clockwise, forming the core of the eddy. Phytoplankton grow in the edges of the eddy near the ocean surface, nourished by the nutrient-rich eddy water
Title: Anti-cyclonic warm core eddy
Credit: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Eddies/eddies_3.php
Author: Robert Simmon
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