Abstract: During the period 1976?78, the movement of 14 Gulf Stream rings, including two anticyclonic and 12 cyclonic rings, was measured with satellite-tracked free-drifting buoys. The buoys in the cyclonic rings showed a tendency ...

Abstract: The influence of the subtropical gyre on the spread of Mediterranean Water in the Atlantic is discussed in terms of a simple horizontal advection-diffusion model. The northern, southern and western boundaries of a rectangular ...

Abstract: The distribution, number and movement of cyclonic Gulf Stream rings were estimated from an analysis of 50 000 temperature records obtained from the National Oceanographic Data Center and Fleet Numerical Weather Central. ...

Abstract: SOFAR floats at different depths within two Mediterranean Water eddies (meddies) reveal that the meddy rotation axes tilt transversely with respect to the meddy translation direction. The rotation axis of one of the meddies ...

Abstract: Subsurface float and surface drifter observations illustrate the structure, evolution, and eventual demise of 10 North Brazil Current (NBC) rings as they approached and collided with the Lesser Antilles in the western ...

Abstract: Two neutrally buoyant SOFAR floats vigorously looped and meandered at depths of 950?1150 m in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. The float trajectories illustrate a poleward flow along the tropical eastern boundary and ...

Abstract: A lens of Mediterranean water (Meddy) was tracked in the eastern North Atlantic for two years with SOFAR floats. The Meddy was first found between the Canary Islands and the Azores in October 1984. It center moved in an ...

Abstract: SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging) floats deployed for engineering tests during 1977?79 yield the first long-term quasi-Lagrangian observations in the subsurface Gulf Stream System. The character of these float tracks supports ...