The loop current is an area of warm water that travels up from the Caribbean, past the Yucatan Peninsula, and into the Gulf of Mexico. The loop current will transport areas of high ocean heat ...

The Loop Current is an area of warm water that travels up from the Caribbean, past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

This year's hurricane season is forecast to be an active one -- due in part to the Loop Current.

The Loop Current is a warm and deep ocean current located in the Gulf of Mexico. It is fed by equatorial waters that enter the Gulf from the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba.

The Loop Current is an area of water that travels up from the Caribbean, past the Yucatan Peninsula, and into the Gulf of Mexico, pulling the warmer waters of Caribbean into the cooler Gulf.

The Loop Current in May 2005 looked strikingly similar to May 2022. (Nick Shay/University of Miami, CC BY-ND) I have been monitoring ocean heat content for more than 30 years as a marine scientist.

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are transforming our knowledge of the Loop Current, the dominant physical ...

ORIGINAL: The loop current in the Gulf of Mexico has been known for quite some time but became notorious in 2005 for aiding in the rapid intensification of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Wilma and Rita also crossed the Loop Current that year and became two of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record. The Loop Current in May 2005 looked strikingly similar to May 2022.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an enormous loop of ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean that ...