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Scientists confirm presence of mysterious striped currents in our oceans

Between 1992 and 2003, Peter Niiler of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, and colleagues collected data from more than 10,000 drifting ocean buoys, which they tracked with satellites. Full Article at New Kerala

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