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ICYMI: This year's powerful hurricanes slowed down the Gulf Stream by 25-40%


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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL

Just days before Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida this past September, a team of marine scientists were in Miami on a project unrelated to the looming storm. They were deploying an ocean glider to monitor the strong offshore current known as the Gulf Stream. Later, however, they learned, from data collected by the robotic vehicle, that two other Atlantic hurricanes around the same time—Jose and Maria—acted as surprisingly powerful brakes on that major current.

read more: https://eos.org/articles/gulf-stream-slowed-as-hurricanes-struck

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