Abstract: The balance of potential vorticity components following fluid parcel motion in Gulf Stream meanders was studied using RAFOS float data from the SYNOP Experiment. By introducing curvature dependent variations to the velocity ...

Abstract: A hypothesis is presented that the original salt lens, or ?meddy,? observed off the Bahamas in the fall of 1976 may have been formed, not near the Mediterranean outflow, but instead in the vicinity of the northwest corner ...

Abstract: Between spring of 1988 and winter of 1990, 75 RAFOS floats were released east of Cape Hatteras near the center of the Gulf stream on the 26.8 σt surface, O (15°C). The purpose of this sequential deployment was to investigate ...

Abstract: This article presents a method for obtaining the mean structure of the temperature, specific volume anomaly, and velocity of an ocean current, using isopycnal float data combined with gravest empirical mode (GEM) fields ...

Abstract: To obtain a description of the hydrographic state of the North Atlantic Current?subpolar front (NAC?SPF) system, historical hydrographic data from the subpolar North Atlantic are projected into a baroclinic streamfunction ...

Abstract: The flow of subtropical waters carried into the northern North Atlantic Ocean by the North Atlantic Current? subpolar front system (NAC?SPF) is an important component of the meridional overturning circulation. These waters ...