Scientists discover new ocean current, North Pacific Gyre Oscillation

Published: May 2, 2008, 8:45 am

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Washington, May 1 : Georgia Institute of Technology scientists have discovered a new ocean current that has now been named the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. The new pattern, has for the first time explained the changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock. The North Pacific Gyre Oscillation gives details on changes in salinity, nutrients and chlorophyll seen in the Northeast Pacific. Boffins say that large fluctuations in these factors could help climatologists in predicting how the oceans will respond in a warmer world. “We’ve been able to explain, for the first time, the changes in salinity, nutrients and chlorophyll that we see in the Northeast Pacific,” said Emanuele Di Lorenzo, assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Fishermen in the California current of the Pacific Ocean have been tracking temperature, salinity and nutrients, etc, in the ocean

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