Abstract: The North American Slope and Gulf Stream components that constitute the initial water masses within a cyclonic ring can combine with Sargasso Sea water to generate Western North Atlantic Water (WNAW) common to the main ...

Abstract: Eight cruises over a 10-month period in the North Atlantic have provided the Cyclonic Ring Experiment with observations of two rings. Life histories, structure and structural changes have been studied with emphasis on the ...

Abstract: Field observations provide a data base that supports a comparison of ring structures in terms of the background Sargasso Sea environment. Five ring surveys, three from the 1967 sequence, a big baby ring and ring AL, were ...