Scientists uncover diversion of Gulf Stream path in late 2011
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 11:02
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org)—At a meeting with New England commercial fishermen last December, physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz and Al Plueddemann from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) were alerted by three fishermen about unusually high surface water temperatures and strong currents on the outer continental shelf south of New England.