Coast Guard Renews Ties with New London
A 45-foot Response Boat - Medium from Coast Guard Station New London transits near the New London Ledge Light at the entrance to the Thames River on April 14, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Steve Strohmaier)
22 May 2021 The Day, New London, Conn. | By Greg Smith
NEW LONDON The U.S. Coast Guard secured its close ties with the city on Thursday with a ceremony to mark New London s re-designation as a Coast Guard City.
Established by Congress in 1998, a Coast Guard City is an honorary five-year designation recognizing a community s special efforts to celebrate the service and the sacrifice of Coast Guard men and women.
We used satellite data to show that when the Gulf Stream migrates closer to the underwater plateau known as the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, as it did after 2008, it blocks the southwestward transport of the Labrador Current that would otherwise provide cold, fresh, oxygen-rich water to the North American shelf, said lead author Gonçalves Neto. This mechanism explains why the most recent decade has been the hottest on record at the edge of the Northeast United States and Canada, as the delivery system of cold water to the region got choked off by the presence of the Gulf Stream.
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IMAGE: An animated map and time series (same color convention) of the 2008 temperature anomaly on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf, highlighting the rapid warming in the most recent decade. view more
Credit: (Animation by Afonso Gonçalves Neto)
KINGSTON, R.I., April 20, 2021 The Northwest Atlantic Shelf is one of the fastest-changing regions in the global ocean, and is currently experiencing marine heat waves, altered fisheries and a surge in sea level rise along the North American east coast. A new paper, Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf, published in
Communications Earth & Environment by recent URI Graduate School of Oceanography graduate Afonso Gonçalves Neto reveals the causes, potential predictability and historical context for these types of rapid changes.
The North Atlantic will see fewer icebergs this year, here s why
Nathan Coleman
Wednesday, April 14th 2021, 6:00 am - There will be a small ceremony in New London, Conn. to recognize the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
The North Atlantic Ocean is typically jam-packed with icebergs moving south at this time of the year, but that s not the case in 2021.
Normally around this time of year about 150 icebergs have trekked south of Latitude 48 degrees north, but so far there s only been a single one.
Marcus Hirschberg, commander of the International Ice Patrol, says sea ice is normally what helps protect icebergs. This enables them to survive until they re released and then they head further south. But this year, the sea ice and icebergs are further north, and against the coast.
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