[decimon]

Ping.

Polynesian seafarers have been said to be able to track ocean currents. In the past, at any rate. Maybe this is how they managed to cross the Pacific.

[Tzimisce]

Global Warming!!!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

The entire ocean is striped with 100-mile-wide bands of slow-moving water that extend right down to the seafloor

Sounds rather like the cloud bands on Jupiter...Do they alternate direction?

Regards,
GtG

[SunkenCiv]

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[nmh]

“Nikolai A. Maximenko of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and colleagues developed a precise new method for measuring the topography of the ocean surface by combining data from satellites and from the movements of more than 10,000 drifting oceanographic buoys. In doing so, the team generated detailed maps, in which they first noticed the peculiar striations. Some scientists initially dismissed the stripes as statistical artifacts, but Maximenko’s team dug deeper, looking for a similar pattern in water temperature measurements from two test areas in the Pacific. “

[Cold Heart]

Interesting. These currents ride piggy back on the previously known ocean currents.

[Dustbunny]

Wow, this is amazing, who would have ever thunk it. /sarc

Maybe this is the reason for global warming. /sarc

Scientist are so arrogant, they think they know all the answers, that is, until new answers come up.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This reminded a friend of the long known phenomenon of icebergs.

Icebergs generate an attractive 360 degree current around them. That is, water is pulled towards them from all sides, and when cooled by the iceberg, sinks straight down, pulling in more water.

This was mentioned in one of the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey-Maturin novels, and O’Brian was known as a stickler for facts.

[colorado tanker]

Fascinating, Captain.