Pinocchio's Nose Map (IMAGE)
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Satellite imagery shows the exchange of warm core ring water (red) with the colder continental shelf waters (blue). Satellite imagery, however, could not help scientists determine the underlying process for the warm water intrusion; instead they used data from ocean robots or "gliders" recently installed off the coast of Massachusetts. The scientists have dubbed the events "Pinocchio's Nose Intrusions" (PNI) because the warm intruding water continues to 'grow' for hundreds of miles, moving in the opposite direction from the northward movement of the Gulf Stream.
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Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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