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Stirring times in the Atlantic

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Set against certain other oceanographic phenomena in the northwest Atlantic, a class of brief and localized events that occur in the Irminger Sea may seem inconsequential. Not so, however.

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Figure 1: The finer scales of satellite sensing.

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