Lesson #3
  Lost and Found
Historical Data.....Historical Data.....Historical Data.....Historical Data.....
 
 
Some features of the Gulf Stream are observed best with saved images.  Click on the links below to access two saved images.  The first image from June 11, 1997 has an explanation written below the image.  Though this explanation may be difficult to understand, read through it and look for the following key words:
       
North wall
Meander
Warm core ring
Cold core ring
 
June 11, 1997 Gulf Stream Image
October 7, 1997 Gulf Stream Image
 
You will learn more about these vocabulary words, as well as, practice identifying them as features shown in the Gulf Stream real time data images in Real Time Data Activity #5 (A River in the Ocean).
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