{"id":2369,"date":"2014-07-01T00:51:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2015-04-22T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:00:50","slug":"mesoscale-eddies-move-far-more-water-than-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/announce\/news\/mesoscale-eddies-move-far-more-water-than-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale eddies move far more water than thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no_margin-top\">Researchers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/eweb.ouc.edu.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean University of China<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/oceanography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Oceanography<\/a> have found that mesoscale eddies \u2014 spinning masses of water 50 to 300 miles in diameter that travel westward in the subtropics \u2014\u00a0 appear to carry far more water with them than scientists have previously imagined. Scientists have known about them for quite some time, but till now, very little was known about their size and movements. To find out more, the researchers analyzed data from both satellites and submersible probes. Putting all the data together, the team was able to see that such eddies can live for months, or even years. Oceanography professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/oceanography\/bo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Qiu<\/a> is one of the authors of the paper published in the journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2014\/06\/25\/science.1252418\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Read more about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-06-mesoscale-eddies-ocean-previously-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\">PhysOrg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Ocean University of China and the Department of Oceanography have found that mesoscale eddies \u2014 spinning masses of water 50 to 300 miles in diameter that travel westward in the subtropics \u2014\u00a0 appear to carry far more water with them than scientists have previously imagined. Scientists have known about them for quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[428],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-physical-oceanography-laboratory-pol","ocean-ocean-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}