Ocean Color Image Gallery
Eddies in the Southern Ocean |
  The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasionally parts as it did on January 1, 2015 just west of the Drake Passage where VIIRS glimpsed the above collection of ocean-color delineated eddies which have diameters ranging from a couple of kilometers to a couple of hundred kilometers. Recent studies indicate that eddy activity has been increasing in the Southern Ocean with possible implications for climate change. |
