Nearly every spring and summer since 2011, a giant bloom of seaweed has developed in the central Atlantic Ocean. Patches of floating brown seaweed—known as Sargassum—have stretched from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico in what is known as the “Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.”
了解详细信息：Nearly every spring and summer since 2011, a giant bloom of seaweed has developed in the central Atlantic Ocean. Patches of floating brown seaweed—known as Sargassum—have stretched from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico in what is known as the “Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.”
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151188/a-massi…Sargassum seaweed in the tropical Atlantic piles into a giant windrow beneath the ITCZ in spring. It’s located very near the equator in this animation of weather analysis data from April, 19, 2023, but it will migrate northward as summer approaches, bringing more Sargassum into the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
www.aoml.noaa.gov/massive-bloom-of-seaweed-i…The clumps are breaking off an enormous raft of free-floating seaweed known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, which stretches 5,000 miles (8,047km) between the Gulf of Mexico and the west...
www.bbc.com/future/article/20230622-what-is-caus…A sargassum bloom floats between the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. The seaweed can choke corals, wreak havoc on coastal ecosystems and diminish air quality.
www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/sargassu…It stretches over 5,000 miles. It weighs over 10 million tons. And it's circling around the Gulf of Mexico and the mid-Atlantic, where the right combination of currents and wind could push it...
www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163385168/sargassum-s…Massive bloom of seaweed in tropical Atlantic
2023年4月24日 · Sargassum seaweed in the tropical Atlantic piles into a giant windrow beneath the ITCZ in spring. It’s located very near the equator in this animation of weather analysis data from April, 19, 2023, but it will migrate …
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2023年3月11日 · A sargassum bloom floats between the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. The seaweed can choke corals, wreak havoc on coastal ecosystems and diminish air quality.
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2023年4月7日 · The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is bounded by the Gulf Stream to the west, the North Atlantic Current to the north, the Canary Current to the east, and the …
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2023年3月16日 · Marine scientists are tracking a massive, 5,000-mile-long seaweed bloom that's drifting toward the Gulf of Mexico. That's almost twice the width of the continental United States. Giant mats of Sargassum are floating …
