GULF-STREAM FLUCTUATIONS AND MEANDERS OVER THE ONSLOW BAY UPPER CONTINENTAL-SLOPE Academic Article

abstract

• North North Carolina Univ., U.S.A. The principal fluctuations observed during the 4-month winter experiment are consistent with Webster's description of downstream propagating, skewed, lateral meanders of the Gulf Stream over the upper continental slope, Concurrent satellite images of a sea surface temperature (SST) meander pattern indicate that subsurface temperature, salinity, velocity and relative-vorticity maxima occured as meander crests (shoreward SST-front excursions) passed over the experiment site. The meandering currents were not coherent with nearby wind stress or coastal sea level fluctuations. Eddy-flux estimates indicate energy conversion from the fluctuations to the mean stream. (from authors abstract)

authors

• Brooks, David

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

author list (cited authors)

• BROOKS, D. A., & BANE, J. M.

citation count

• 60

complete list of authors

• BROOKS, DA||BANE, JM

publication date

• February 1981

publisher

• American Meteorological Society  Publisher

keywords

• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3708 Oceanography
• 40 Engineering
• 4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1175/1520-0485(1981)011<0247:GSFAMO>2.0.CO;2

start page

• 247

end page

• 256

volume

• 11

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1175%2F1520-0485%281981%29011%253C0247%3Agsfamo%253E2.0.co%3B2