page_title: Langmuir circulation
hierarchical_section_title: Langmuir circulation
caption_attribution_description: Rodeo Lagoon viewed from the trail on the southeast side of the lagoon. Streaks on the water are evidence of Langmuir circulation, a product of the prevailing windy conditions.
context_page_description: In physical oceanography, Langmuir circulation consists of a series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the wind.
  These circulations are developed when wind blows steadily over the sea surface.
  Irving Langmuir discovered this phenomenon after observing windrows of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea in 1927.
  Langmuir circulations circulate within the mixed layer; however, it is not yet so clear how strongly they can cause mixing at the base of the mixed layer.
context_section_description: In physical oceanography, Langmuir circulation consists of a series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the wind.
  These circulations are developed when wind blows steadily over the sea surface. 
  Irving Langmuir discovered this phenomenon after observing windrows of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea in 1927.
  Langmuir circulations circulate within the mixed layer; however, it is not yet so clear how strongly they can cause mixing at the base of the mixed layer.
caption: White streaks in this lagoon are due to the Langmuir circulation.
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