One of the World’s Fastest Ocean Currents Remains Remarkably Stable

In a new study, scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and the National Oceanography Centre reassess motion-induced voltages measured on a submarine cable and reevaluate the overall trend in the inferred FC transport. They found that the strength of the Florida Current, the beginning of the Gulf Stream system, and a vital component of the global Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has remained stable for the past four decades.