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A Lava Lamp Look at the Atlantic

The Gulf Stream is a warm current amidst the cool North Atlantic. But the pattern is hardly uniform.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Lava Lamp Look at the Atlantic.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published December 22, 2013
Data acquired April 9, 2013

Topics:: Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents; Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature