our dancing waters

[asakiyume]

From NASA, A beautiful visualization of ocean currents, showing how the waters of Planet Earth move.

(Good for story research, too)

Watch on YouTube

Here is a link to the NASA page where you can download the video.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I said the same thing about the Gulf Stream, but then my husband reminded me that the Gulf Stream is an **air** current, and that we're looking here at *ocean* currents. I imagine they must run more or less in parallel, though--and when you think that we have patterns like this in both the air and the water, it just makes the dance of the planet seem all the more complex and beautiful.

[cecile-c.livejournal.com]

It's an air current?? Huh. The things you think you know...

belay that--he was wrong!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I just checked, and it **is** an ocean current.
So you and I were right :D

Maybe he was confused because he was thinking of the *jet* stream.