Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

The ocean's major eddies can grow up to 500 kilometers, reach depths of 2,500 meters, persist for weeks or even months, and venture 4,500 kilometers before finally fading away.

In fact, NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory describes mesoscale eddies, typically less than 100 kilometers across, explicitly as the weather of the ocean.

So yeah, they've really earned their place in this video.

Collectively, eddies across the globe account for more than half of the kinetic energy associated with ocean circulation.

The forecasts are kind of unhinged, homie.

The white man experimental GFDL model currently projects me to become stronger than any El Nino in the past 30 years.

The white man like he's Native American.

Fuck them, man.

My students, my first graduate student here at the University of Arizona is now the state climatologist for Nevada, another drought-stricken neighbor, et cetera.

The, the guy I worked with at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory is now the state climatologist for New Jersey.

It is my student who was, who deployed our very first biogeochemical robot floats, she's now a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she sent me a photo last year of her big oceanography class that's just like the big oceanography class she started out in with me.

We, we are, we are changing the world.