Monday, June 27, 2016
Despite contrarian winds, Beaufort Gyre current is still very strong
NASA EOSDIS 11 days of June 2016 selected at about 2 or 3 day intervals. You can see cyclones moving through along with contrarian winds, there were quite a few small cyclones hanging about during the same period. But nothing , literally nothing stopped the surface current moving the ice clockwise. This is explainable by 3 of many sea ice displacement vectors. The coriolis effect, note its not a force, sea ice momentum movement (a seldom discussed displacement vector) and finally the Beaufort Gyre itself, reinvigorated by months of clockwise circulation of mixed aged pack ice. This implies any lull in winds will cause compaction to occur nevertheless. wd June 27 2016.
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