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RISThe Relationship of the Curl of the Local Wind Stress to the Circulation of the Cayman Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The curl of the annual mean wind stress is proposed as the forcing mechanism for the anticyclonic gyre observed in the Cayman Sea. A simple wind-driven model is presented to illustrate how a steady-state gyre in the Cayman ...
Air Mass Modification over the Eastern Gulf of Mexico as a Function of Surface Wind Fields and Loop Current Position
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effects of surface wind patterns and Loop Current position on surface distributions of latent and sensible heat fluxes in the eastern Gulf of Mexico are demonstrated. Mean monthly fields of thew fluxes computed from ...
Lessons Learned From Operating Global Ocean Observing Networks
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Global Ocean Observing System Center (GOOSC) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory operates two global observing networks, a drifting buoy ...
The Formation of the Yucatan Current Based on Observations of Summer 1971
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Temperature, salinity and Lagrangian current data collected during the summer of 1971 in the western Caribbean Sea are employed to evaluate the ageostrophic components of the flow in the formation region of the Yucatan ...
A Comparison of Observed and Numerically Simulated Circulation in the Cayman Sea
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An observational and numerical study of the circulation in the Cayman Sea is presented. Data taken in three different years suggest a common February to May circulation pattern. A well-developed current crosses 85W south ...
Two Cross-Equatorial Sections at 110°W
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A section along 110°W in the eastern Pacific from about 6°N to 6°S was occupied in March and June of 1981. Measurements consisted of absolute velocity profiles and CTD cuts. The large-scale structure of the subsurface zonal ...
Temperature and Salinity Variability in the Deep Western Boundary Current
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A ten-year time series (1984?1993) of repeat hydrographic sections from offshore Abaco Island, the Bahamas (26.5°N), is used to define the mean and time dependent characteristics of the deep western boundary current (DWBC). ...
An Evaluation of the WOCE Volunteer Observing Ship–XBT Network in the Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A volunteer observing ship (VOS)-expendable bathythermograph (XBT) network has been proposed for the Atlantic Ocean to satisfy World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) objectives in the upper water column. These objectives ...
Topographic Modification of the Florida Current by Little Bahama and Great Bahama Banks
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effect of local topography in modifying the structure and variability of the Florida Current is examined using shipboard acoustic Doppler and PEGASUS acoustic current profiler data. PEGASUS absolute velocity data were ...
Current Meter Observations on the Continental Slope at Two Sites in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Current-meter observations obtained at two sites on the continental slope of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, at nominal positions of 29°N, 88°W (the Mobile site) and 27.5°N, 85.5°W (the Tampa site) are presented. Data were ...