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Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current seasonal transitions.

Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current seasonal transitions.
Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current seasonal transitions.
Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current seasonal transitions.
Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current seasonal transitions.
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Renier, Natalie
Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current seasonal transitions.
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05/09/2008
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pages 50-51:
How can a current disappear? In winter, periodic blasts of dry air blow through gaps in coastal mountains in Saudi Arabia. They abruptly increase evaporation and stir up surface waters in the Red Sea, leaving the waters much saltier and colder and causing the Red Sea Eastern Boundary Current to fade away. The cold, salty waters sink and flow south into the Gulf of Aden.
Image Of the Day caption:
The Red Sea has a number of curious characteristics that are not seen in other oceans. It is extremely warm, surface waters often reach over 86? Fahrenheit, and the waters evaporate rapidly making the sea extremely salty. Its currents also change direction in summer and winter. All of this and more intrigues MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Viviane Menezes who has begun investigating the Red Seas' many mysteries.
Oceanus online caption:
The Red Sea has several characteristics not seen in other oceans: extremely warm temperatures, high evaporation, and odd circulation, including currents that change in summer and winter.
Illustration by Natalie Renier
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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