Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt 2025. The latitude of this meeting place shifts north of the equator as spring turns to summer, and the windrow of seaweed—scientists have dubbed it “the great atlantic. At the start of the animation, small patches of sargassum are scattered across the waters of the caribbean sea and the tropical atlantic.
Pelagic sargassum is abundant in the sargasso sea, but a recurrent great atlantic sargassum belt (gasb) has been observed in satellite imagery since 2011, often extending from west. Using modis data, wang et al.