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Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico.

Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico.
Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico.
Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico.
Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico.
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05/04/2010
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 55, No. 2, Pg. 41:
The Loop Current (orange) is like a big river of warm water that flows northward from the Caribbean Sea. It sometimes loops up close to Louisiana and then swoops back down through the Florida Straits and into the Atlantic Ocean. (Sea surface temperature image by the Ocean Remote Sensing Group, © Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory); The illustration below shows the flow of warm water through the Yucatán Peninsula and Florida Straits into the Gulf Stream, and a ring-shaped eddy detaching from the main Loop Current.
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