Drifter Animation (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Drifter Animation

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A group of 326 drifters were initially dropped in February 2016 in a grid pattern in the Gulf of Mexico. The white dots in the video disperse, but the red dots clump together in an area about the size of a football field.

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Andrey Shcherbina/University of Washington

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