Abstract: Observations of deep currents, from a closely spaced array deployed at the base of the Sigsbee Escarpment, south of the Mississippi Delta, are dominated by energetic, short-period (?10 days) topographic Rossby waves. Over ...

Abstract: Direct current measurements using moored arrays have been made below 1000 m in the eastern, central and western Gulf of Mexico basin. The major low frequency velocity fluctuations in the lower 1000 to 2000 m of the water ...

Abstract: Subsurface jets, defined as having velocity maxima >40 cm s?1 at depths between 100 and 350 m, and being surrounded by much weaker near-surface currents, have been observed over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico continental ...

Abstract: A numerical model of the upwelling circulation on a continental shelf is presented which employs f-plane dynamics. is continuously stratified, and assumes that all quantities are uniform alongshore with a local mass balance ...

Abstract: The primary goal of this paper is to prescribe the practical limitations of the two-dimensional, baroclinic, time-dependent model of Hamilton and Rattray (1978) for the Oregon-Washington continental shelf. A unique time ...

Abstract: This study evaluates a data-assimilated model simulation of near-surface circulation in DeSoto Canyon (DSC), Gulf of Mexico, with emphasis on analyzing moored current-meter observations and comparing them with satellite ...

Abstract: The paths of anticyclonic Loop Current eddies in the western Gulf of Mexico have been investigated using ARGOS-tracked drifters accompanied by hydrographic surveys. The analysis used orbit parameters derived from a least ...

Abstract: Multiyear continuous observations of velocity and salinity in the Chesapeake Bay indicate that wind-induced destratification occurs frequently from early fall through midspring over large areas of the estuary. Storm-driven ...

Abstract: Transports were calculated for four sections of the Florida Current from Key West to Jupiter, Florida, using a moored current-meter array and voltages from cross-channel telephone cables at the western and northern ends ...

Abstract: AbstractA set of float trajectories, deployed at 1500- and 2500-m depths throughout the deep Gulf of Mexico from 2011 to 2015, are analyzed for mesoscale processes under the Loop Current (LC). In the eastern basin, December ...