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Researchers nravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
Satellite image of the South China Sea with colors added to indicate the calculated vertical displacement of ocean layers near 200 meters deep, based on simulated model data and calculations run by Harper Simmons at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks a
Credit: The researchers
Detailed new field studies, laboratory experiments, and simulations of the largest known "internal waves" in the Earth's oceans—phenomena that play a key role in mixing ocean waters, greatly affecting ocean temperatures—provide a comprehensive new view of how these colossal, invisible waves are born, spread, and die off.
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