In 2011, physical oceanographer Bob Pickart and Icelandic scientists detected a previously unknown current flowing in the opposite direction from the water they were studying in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland.
Sources
- Solving this oceanic mystery could help predict our future on Earth (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/a-new-current-on-the-map (bjerknes.uib.no)
- https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10163029 (par.nsf.gov)
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