|
No. LC Eddies (1984-2024) |
Eddy Name |
Initial Separation Date |
Dissipation Date |
No. of LC Separations |
Name of Secondary Eddy |
Max Surface Current (knots) |
Eddy Name Meaning |
|
78 |
Cardone |
03/04/2024 |
Active |
|
|
|
Dr. Vince Cardone is considered the father of modern numerical wind and wave hindcasting. |
|
77 |
Berek |
10/13/2023 |
04/2024 |
1 |
Berek II |
|
Eugene Berek (1954-2023) made significant contributions to joint-industry projects in many of the world's oceans. |
|
76 |
Atwater |
05/18/2023 |
10/2023 |
3 |
|
|
Tanya Atwater (b. 1942) is an American geophysicist and marine geologist known for her early research on the plate tectonic theory of western North America. |
|
75 |
Zodiac |
12/27/2022 |
05/2023 |
3 |
|
|
The Zodiac is an imaginary band in the heavens centered on the ecliptic that encompasses the apparent paths of all the planets and is divided into 12 constellations or signs. |
|
74 |
Yazoo |
06/20/2022 |
08/2022 |
4 |
Yazoo II |
|
The Yazoo River is a river in Louisiana and Mississippi that marks the southern boundary of the Mississippi Delta. |
|
73 |
Xavier |
02/22/2022 |
|
1 |
Xavier II |
|
Xavier Pastor is the executive director of Oceana Europe (OE). He led OE’s 2011 Baltic Sea expedition. |
|
72 |
Wilde |
09/06/2021 |
06/2022 |
4 |
Wilde II |
|
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright known for the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray". |
|
71 |
Verne |
08/13/2021 |
12/2021 |
2 |
|
|
Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright known for his bestselling novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). |
|
70 |
Ursa |
03/07/2021 |
06/2021 |
3 |
|
|
Ursa is the name of two constellations of the northern sky: Ursa Major (the Great Bear) and Ursa Minor (the Little Bear). |
|
69 |
Thor |
01/26/2020 |
09/2020 |
1 |
|
|
Thor is the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology. |
|
68 |
Sverdrup |
07/08/2019 |
01/2020 |
1 |
Sverdrup Jr. |
|
Sverdrup is the unit of measure of volume transport used in oceanography, named after famed Norwegian oceanographer Harald Sverdrup. |
|
67 |
Revelle |
04/26/2018 |
02/2019 |
2 |
|
3.9 |
Roger Revelle launched several major long-range expeditions in the 1950s, each traversing a different part of the Pacific Ocean. |
|
66 |
Quantum |
11/12/2017 |
11/2018 |
5 |
Quantum II |
3.7 |
Quantum theory is a fundamental theory in physics that is used to describe the nature and behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic level. |
|
65 |
Poseidon |
11/26/2015 |
04/2017 |
2 |
|
3.5 |
Poseidon is the Greek God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. |
|
64 |
Olympus |
06/28/2015 |
06/2016 |
3 |
Olympus II |
4.2 |
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece and the second highest mountain in the Balkans. |
|
63 |
Nautilus |
05/01/2015 |
11/2015 |
2 |
Nautilus II |
3.8 |
The USS Nautilus was the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. |
|
62 |
Michael |
01/19/2015 |
07/2015 |
2 |
|
4.3 |
|
|
61 |
Lazarus |
07/09/2014 |
05/2015 |
3 |
|
3.7 |
In 1992, five friends in their twenties embarked on the “Lazarus World Voyage”. Their adventure spanned two and a half years, 30,000 NM, and three oceans. Milestones included passing through the Panama Canal, making landfall on five different continents, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and tying the circumnavigation “knot” in Grenada. |
|
60 |
Kraken |
04/08/2013 |
10/2014 |
1 |
|
3.9 |
A Kraken is a legendary sea monster of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. |
|
59 |
Jumbo |
06/28/2012 |
02/2013 |
1 |
Jumbo Jr. |
3.1 |
|
|
58 |
Icarus |
11/04/2011 |
02/2013 |
3 |
|
3.5 |
Icarus flew too close to the sun and the sun melted the wax holding his wings together, so he fell into the water and drowned. The sea into which Icarus had fallen is called the Icarian Sea (between the Cyclades and Asia Minor). |
|
57 |
Hadal |
08/01/2011 |
03/2012 |
1 |
Hadal II |
3.3 |
The Hadal Zone, also known as the hadopelagic zone and trench zone, is the delineation for the deepest trenches in the ocean. This zone is found from a depth of around 6,000 meters to the bottom of the ocean which can be greater than 10,000 meters. |
|
56 |
Galileo |
06/21/2011 |
01/2012 |
1 |
|
1.7 |
|
|
55 |
Franklin |
06/09/2010 |
10/2011 |
1 |
|
3.9 |
Benjamin Franklin contributed to oceanography by making and compiling good observations of ocean currents off the US East Coast. Franklin was the first to refer to the Gulf Stream as a river in the ocean. |
|
54 |
Ekman |
07/15/2009 |
03/2011 |
4 |
|
3.9 |
Vagn Walfrid Ekman observed that icebergs did not drift in the direction of prevailing winds but instead followed a trajectory with an angle of 20° to 40° to the right of the wind. In 1905, he published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force which arises from planetary rotation. |
|
53 |
Darwin |
12/08/2008 |
11/2009 |
2 |
|
4.4 |
2009 was the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species”. |
|
52 |
Cameron |
07/07/2008 |
05/2009 |
1 |
|
3.2 |
|
|
51 |
Brazos |
03/10/2008 |
09/2008 |
4 |
|
3.5 |
|
|
50 |
Albert |
11/18/2007 |
05/2008 |
2 |
Albert II |
3.1 |
|
|
49 |
Zorro |
04/12/2007 |
08/2007 |
3 |
|
3.9 |
|
|
48 |
Yankee |
07/19/2006 |
01/2008 |
2 |
|
3.6 |
|
|
47 |
Xtreme |
03/05/2006 |
09/2006 |
3 |
|
3.9 |
|
|
46 |
Walker |
02/13/2006 |
05/2006 |
1 |
|
2.8 |
|
|
45 |
Vortex |
03/10/2005 |
03/2006 |
5 |
|
3.7 |
|
|
44 |
Ulysses |
08/26/2004 |
09/2005 |
2 |
U2 |
3.5 |
|
|
43 |
Titanic |
10/05/2003 |
10/2004 |
3 |
|
4.1 |
|
|
42 |
Sargassum |
05/31/2003 |
12/2003 |
3 |
|
4.5 |
|
|
41 |
Rebel |
04/28/2002 |
04/2002 |
1 |
|
2.1 |
|
|
40 |
Quick |
03/10/2002 |
04/2003 |
2 |
QE-2 |
4.3 |
|
|
39 |
Pelagic |
03/10/2002 |
05/2002 |
1 |
|
3.5 |
|
|
38 |
Odessa |
09/16/2001 |
12/2001 |
1 |
|
3.8 |
|
|
37 |
Nansen |
04/22/2001 |
12/2001 |
3 |
|
3.5 |
|
|
36 |
Millennium |
04/22/2001 |
11/2001 |
1 |
|
4.4 |
|
|
35 |
Lazy |
07/02/2000 |
09/2000 |
1 |
|
3.2 |
|
|
34 |
Kinetic |
06/18/2000 |
02/2001 |
1 |
|
3.9 |
|
|
33 |
Juggernaut |
10/10/1999 |
11/2000 |
1 |
|
4.5 |
|
|
32 |
Indigo |
08/22/1999 |
12/1999 |
2 |
|
2.2 |
|
|
31 |
Haskell |
07/12/1999 |
08/1999 |
2 |
|
4.4 |
|
|
30 |
Gyre |
05/11/1998 |
02/1999 |
1 |
|
4.5 |
|
|
29 |
Fourchon |
03/03/1998 |
08/1998 |
3 |
|
4.5 |
|
|
28 |
El Dorado |
08/01/1997 |
01/1999 |
2 |
|
2.9 |
|
|
27 |
Easy |
01/31/1997 |
03/1997 |
1 |
|
1.1 |
|
|
26 |
Deviant |
12/13/1996 |
08/1997 |
2 |
|
1.5 |
|
|
25 |
Creole |
08/30/1996 |
06/1997 |
3 |
|
3.3 |
|
|
24 |
Biloxi |
03/29/1996 |
12/1996 |
1 |
Biloxi II |
2.8 |
|
|
23 |
Aggie |
09/29/1995 |
07/1996 |
2 |
|
2.2 |
|
|
22 |
Zapp |
03/17/1995 |
10/1995 |
3 |
|
2.8 |
|
|
21 |
Yucatan |
09/16/1994 |
02/1995 |
1 |
Little Yucatan |
2.7 |
|
|
20 |
Xtra |
09/24/1993 |
01/1994 |
1 |
|
2.3 |
|
|
19 |
Whopper |
06/18/1993 |
11/1993 |
2 |
|
1.9 |
|
|
18 |
Vagabond |
11/13/1992 |
03/1993 |
3 |
|
1.0 |
|
|
17 |
Triton |
08/02/1991 |
2 |
|
1.6 |
|
|
|
16 |
Steady |
11/15/1990 |
04/1991 |
1 |
|
1.0 |
|
|
15 |
Rogue |
08/24/1990 |
11/1990 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
14 |
Quiet |
08/03/1990 |
12/1990 |
2 |
|
2.2 |
|
|
13 |
Phantom |
11/10/1989 |
12/1989 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
12 |
Oggie |
06/23/1989 |
07/1989 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
11 |
Nelson |
02/24/1989 |
12/1990 |
2 |
|
3.1 |
|
|
10 |
Murphy |
06/03/1988 |
04/1989 |
1 |
|
2.0 |
|
|
9 |
Eddy "L" |
04/08/1988 |
06/1988 |
1 |
|
1.4 |
|
|
8 |
Kathleen |
01/1988 |
09/1988 |
|
|
1.9 |
|
|
7 |
Little Jupiter |
04/30/1987 |
05/1987 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
6 |
Instant |
08/15/1986 |
06/1987 |
1 |
|
1.8 |
|
|
5 |
Hot Core |
11/08/1985 |
1 |
|
2.9 |
|
|
|
4 |
Ghostly |
08/16/1985 |
12/1985 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
3 |
Fast |
05/31/1985 |
05/1986 |
2 |
|
2.7 |
|
|
2 |
Elusive |
01/27/1985 |
04/1985 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Arnold |
09/16/1984 |
12/1984 |
1 |
|
|
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