Current affairs

While currents exist in many places in the world, the phenomenon known as the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current cuts through a prime oil and gas producing region, where the current and its eddies can complicate deepwater activities. Meteorologist Steve Lyons explains the ins and outs of the Loop Current to Jennifer Pallanich.

Beached: Rick Lumpkin, global drifter programme manager at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, with one of the agency’s buoys
Beached: Rick Lumpkin, global drifter programme manager at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, with one of the agency’s buoys
Published 15 April 2016, 00:00Updated 6 January 2017, 13:00
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