New Ways to Look at the Ocean 2013

Visualizing GEBCO Peter Morse on VIMEO: Where Has All The Sea Ice Gone: Ignatius Rigor Prodeuced This Film: Gibralter Strait: As the tides slosh back and forth over the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, the water must go up and over the shallow sill between Europe and Africa that separates the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, GENERATING GIANT WAVES. Crests are formed on the left hand side of the sill and then propagate to the right. And you can even see the waves getting all squished as they go through the narrow constriction that is the Strait of Gibraltar. As flow sloshes over the hump, waves are generated at the rainbow interface of the fresher surface layer (blue) with the saltier deep layer (red). And it is a gorgeous train of waves that heads to the right. A bunch of wiggles heading eastward where they will eventually break somewhere in the Mediterranean. Deep Sea Angler: