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HERE'S ONE OCEAN VIEW that can't be seen from any beach. It is a contour map of the potential vorticity, or spin, of a simulated ocean. The red regions spin counter-clockwise and the blue regions spin clockwise. The circular regions of color are ocean eddies, and the sharp boundary between the red upper and blue lower regions is the simulated Gulf Stream. The high-resolution, massively parallel numerical model driving this visualization contains more than 30 ...