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While that was soon to change, it meant that for books especially, 1996 was an eddy of calm before the meteor storm arrived.

The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”

Understanding how fish swim in eddies could also aid in habitat restoration, the team says, helping conservationists engineer more efficient fish passages through dams.

All around him the wind swirled and eddied, spinning snow into whirlwinds of wintery blankness.

They found that as the Weddell Sea current flowed around Maud Rise, the turbulent eddies moved salt onto the top of the sea mount.