🐢 Sea Turtle Navigation: The Magnetic Map, Inclination and Ocean Gyre Migration
Loggerhead hatchlings steer by the Earth's magnetic inclination and intensity as they ride a Stommel-type North Atlantic gyre: a dipole-field signpost map, gradient-descent navigation versus passive drifters, magnetic-displacement tank tests, geomagnetic secular drift and light disorientation on a dusk beach. Unlike the existing turtle sims (hatchling, leatherback, generic ocean), the focus here is the geomagnetic map itself and its measured checks.
Loggerhead hatchlings steer by the Earth's magnetic inclination and intensity as they ride a Stommel-type North Atlantic gyre: a dipole-field signpost map, gradient-descent navigation versus passive drifters, magnetic-displacement tank tests, geomagnetic secular drift and light disorientation on a dusk beach. Unlike the existing turtle sims (hatchling, leatherback, generic ocean), the focus here is the geomagnetic map itself and its measured checks.
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