Image: The turbulent North Atlantic
The Gulf Stream waters flow in somewhat parallel layers, slicing across what is otherwise a fairly turbulent western North Atlantic Ocean in this March 9, 2016 image collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite.
The turbulence—made visible by the pigmented phytoplankton it entrains—extends across the whole North American Basin from Anegada to Bermuda to Cape Cod.
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