//Floating in the Deep Blue//
I love the ocean, it has given me much joy and inspiration over the years. In fact, I’d say that being on or below sea water has been a humbling experience. Immersion and realization of just how vast waters are is something a matter of perspective that many will realize when looking out from a shore. If you’ve ever been to the deep blue, water is every yet not a drop to drink. We are at the mercy of nature and floating around the vast oceans made that very apparent. When it comes to water science there is so much to talk about but discovery of an increase of ocean currents is not something I had ever considered.
//Small Changes and Big Energy//
With modern technology, scientists are able to obtain data all over the world for various studies to understand just what is happening to our precious planet. If you didn’t know, oceanographers study, monitor and predict changes in our oceans. One of the most prominent oceanography projects is known as Argo which uses sea bots to gather and transmit data for modelling and everything else. With climate change moving at a substantial pace, it’s interesting to have a look at the more subtle yet major impacts happening on Earth. It’s almost an oxymoron, but a noticeable increase in speed of currents has been noted, albeit a small one. Looking at the bigger picture, it takes a significant amounts of energy to generate acceleration of this scale and scientists will be wanting to monitor and figure out why exactly this is happening.
//Deeper Ocean Monitoring//
As time goes on, the ocean continues to behave in peculiar ways but this is an extension of our lack of understanding. Projects like Argo offer substantial utility in monitoring and supplying data for oceanography but there still remains a challenge to go a little deeper and see what’s happening at the depths of the ocean. Deep Ocean monitoring still remains a challenge and scientists are looking to go a little deeper in hopes to understand this increase in current speed. Making sense of data can be hard in any field and sometimes theory can only take us so far, real world data is needed in places that we wouldn’t normally have access to. It will be fascinating to see just how far global monitoring systems go in the next decade on land, below the ocean and way high in the clouds.
Sources
https://www.livescience.com/ocean-currents-speeding-up.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current