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This week from AGU: Atlantic currents, Aurora Borealis art & 5 new research papers

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Gulf Stream ring water intrudes onto continental shelf Like "Pinocchio's Nose"

Ocean robots installed off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters of the continental shelf exchange, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters.

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Aurora painting pays tribute to Civil War's end

Frederic Edwin Church's 1865 arctic landscape, "Aurora Borealis," is a beautiful depiction of nature. It might also be a memorial reflection on the end of the war.

New research papers

Deep subsurface carbon cycling in the Nankai Trough (Japan)--Evidence of tectonically induced stimulation of a deep microbial biosphere, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

On the suitability of North Brazil Current transport estimates for monitoring basin-scale AMOC changes, Geophysical Research Letters

Effects of Saturn's magnetospheric dynamics on Titan's ionosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Sediment transport based metrics of wetland stability, Geophysical Research Letters

Successive estimation of a tsunami wavefield without earthquake source data: A data assimilation approach toward real-time tsunami forecasting, Geophysical Research Letters

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