Today the currents around 29 as forecasted by the RTFOS and MyOcean models is quite peculiar.
Aside from the currents being nearly the opposite direction of each other between the two models, both show 29 in the center of an eddy solar system. A cool feature from the myocean model is that at the surface, to our south west there is a nice tight warm core eddy that while we go down in depth, the eddy structure looks like it slants north east in our direction leaving us at the edge of the eastern side of the eddy with its northward flow that almost matches with our depth average current calculation.
The RTOFS model also shows us in an eddy field, but only has the currents around 300 m flowing in a direction that correlates with the currents recorded by 29. Above that at the surface the model shows a flow to the west while from 600 to 900m the current is moving largely to the south
In other news, Fabien Cousteau has agreed to help spread the word of the Challenger Mission, for which he will make a promotional video that we will air at the Catch the Next Wave conference on March 10th to kick off Oceanology International 2014!
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