Visualization of sea level anomaly near Bermuda

This is a video of sea level anomaly (SLA) near Bermuda from the years 2002 to 2004, made by high school interns in the BridgeUP: STEM Brown Scholars program at the American Museum of Natural History. Throughout the last year, they have been using satellite SLA data to study the formation of mesoscale eddies and identify them using a computer algorithm. From this video, several trends were identified:

• Eddies in the Bermuda region moved west
• Hot, anticyclonic eddies were more likely to be present during the winter months near Bermuda (November to March)
• Cold, cyclonic eddies were more likely to be found during the summer months near Bermuda (May to October)
• The more symmetrical and/or circular an eddy was, the longer the eddy would last