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The Unseen Forces Driving Ocean Currents Across the Pacific

Suhail Ahmed

For decades, oceanographers chased the drama at the surface – the gleam of swirling eddies in satellite images, the ribboning tracks of major currents, the flash of storms whipping up seas. Yet the real steering wheels were hiding in the dark: long chains of underwater mountains bending water like wind around a cliff. New high‑resolution ...