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Researchers go ‘outside the box’ to delineate major ocean currents

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Researchers have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers. Using a novel coarse-graining technique, they have discovered that the most energetic is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, some 9,000 kilometers in diameter.