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Old March 27th 10, 07:58 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Interesting SST anomaly

James Brown wrote:

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/a....3.25.2010.gif

Shows a quite cold pool in the Gulf of Mexico - but with a warm centre - is
this to do with undersea contours or something else I wonder. It shows up
very well on IR images from the GOES E satellite.

Cheers

James


This is the so-called "Loop Current". It's a common feature in the Gulf of
Mexico. There's a huge number of references available if you Google "Gulf of
Mexico Loop Current".

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