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"Synthetic" float data shown projected from one month to ten years.

"Synthetic" float data shown projected from one month to ten years.
"Synthetic" float data shown projected from one month to ten years.
"Synthetic" float data shown projected from one month to ten years.
"Synthetic" float data shown projected from one month to ten years.
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Levang, Sam
"Synthetic" float data shown projected from one month to ten years.
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05/09/2008
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 33:
Researchers use computer simulations of ocean circulation to predict how floats would move in ocean currents. Here, the model simulates the release of a group of floats near Cape Hatteras, with the three panels showing float locations after one month, one year, and ten years. The complexity of the oceans currents causes these floats to rapidly spread apart, and the details of this spreading are important for predicting the oceans response to climate change. Colors indicate the depth of the floats, with red trajectories near the surface and blue ones in deeper waters.
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Sam Levang, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, uses models to simulate ocean circulation. Into his virtual ocean, he injects synthetic floats to see where ocean currents take the floats. Here, synthetic floats were released near Cape Hatteras (yellow star). These three panels show the trajectories and locations of the floats after one month, one year, and ten years. The complexity of the ocean's currents causes these floats to spread apart rapidly. The details of this spreading are important to predict the ocean's response to climate change. Colors indicate the depth of the floats, with red trajectories near the surface and blue ones in deeper waters.
Caption from Oceanus online:
"Synthetic" floats are used to generate trajectories in computer simulations of ocean circulation. Here, a group of floats are released near Cape Hatteras, with the three panels showing float locations after one month, one year, and ten years. The complexity of the ocean's currents causes these floats to rapidly spread apart, and the details of this spreading are important to predict the ocean's response to climate change. Colors indicate the depth of the floats, with red trajectories near the surface and blue ones in deeper waters.
Illustration courtesy of Sam Levang
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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