Abstract: Velocity and eddy kinetic energy were calculated from SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging) float trajectories using original daily values and values subsampled at intervals of 15, 30, and 60 days to simulate pop-up floats that ...

Abstract: During 1975?78, 35 free-drifting buoys measured surface currents in the Gulf Stream region. The buoy trajectories trace numerous paths of the Stream and show that the Stream is strongly influenced by the New England ...

Abstract: Surface currents in the tropical Atlantic were studied using historical ship-drift data. These are the only available data capable of resolving the long-term seasonal fluctuations of currents over a broad geographical ...

Abstract: A newly developed buoy which is free drifting and tracked by satellite was successfully used to measure the movement of a Gull Stream ring. The buoy, launched in a young ring at 36°15?N, 58°00?W, looped around its center ...

Abstract: A cyclonic Gulf Stream eddy was observed in the western Sargasso Sea by satellite infrared measurements and later confirmed by ship measurements. Fourteen months of observations indicate that the eddy moved southwestward ...

Abstract: Three Meddies were tracked for up to two years in the Canary Basin using neutrally buoyant SOFAR floats. These Meddies have cores of warm, salty Mediterranean Water and are approximately 100 km in diameter, 800 m thick, ...

Abstract: An experiment to test the feasibility of tracking Gulf Stream rings with neutrally buoyant SOFAR floats was begun in September 1974. Three floats were launched at depths of 750, 1050 and 1080 m in a ring west of Bermuda. ...