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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Heezen collected sonar data from ships that crossed the Atlantic Ocean. At the time ... at the time due to a lack of physical ...
Going with the flow: Visualizing ocean currents with ECCO ocean model
Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately predict fluctuations in temperature, salinity, and other properties. As ...
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Key Physical Variables in the Ocean: Temperature, Salinity, and Density
In addition to controlling physical properties, the variation in space and time of temperature and salinity are also important water mass tracers that can be used to map the ocean circulation.