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A 'surprising' cause of sargassum blooms in Caribbean: Study pinpoints changes in circulation and wind patterns

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Sargassum is floating macroalgae that has inundated beaches in the Caribbean since 2011 .

A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping point that established the phenomenon in the tropical Atlantic Ocean .

The researchers used computer models to simulate the transport of sargasum from the northern to the southern part of the North Atlantic , testing whether the NAO was the root cause.

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