Abstract: Data from the 1977 Cyclonic Ring Experiment is used to examine the, density, velocity, vorticity and energy distributions in a Gulf Stream cyclonic ring. A time series on ring BOB provides information on the temporal changes ...

Abstract: The flow through broad passage connecting oceans and marginal seas is examined by a simplified two-layer analytical model. Attention is focused on the flow resulting from the difference between the upper layer depth in the ...

Abstract: The Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of the flow in a double gyre, eddy-resolving numerical simulation are compared in the context of exploring the use of drifter arrays to describe ocean circulation. The parameterization ...

Abstract: The problem of tracking closed mesoscale vortices using center of mass estimation techniques is studied. Three estimators are evaluated using data from a warm core Gulf Stream ring. The comparisons show that a method based ...

Abstract: The existence of temporally growing spatially damped long waves in western boundary current extensions is suggested by various authors from both an observational and theoretical point of view. Here the nature of such waves ...

Abstract: A small scale but energetic and highly nonlinear anticyclonic eddy was observed near the New England Shelf Break in July 1983. Satellite images show a tongue of shelf water 15 km wide flowing offshore then turning ...

Abstract: Two tritium sections through the deep western boundary current east of the Bahamas taken in late 1980 and early 1981 are presented. Tritium from the bomb tests in the late 1950s and early 1960s is used to identify recently ...

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 ...

Abstract: Observational evidence from a two-ship synoptic survey, from one-year-long current measurements at four sites, and from two independent long-term expendable-baththermograph (XBT) data sets is combined to describe the ...

Abstract: A pilot experiment using an array of 45 drifters to explore the circulation in the north and central Aegean Sea is described. The global positioning system drifters with holey-sock drogues provide positions every hour with ...