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Autor:
Wilton Sturges
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 50:1983-1988
Ship-drift data in the Gulf of Mexico have led to a perplexing result, that the near-surface flow in the west has a north–south mean, of the east–west flow, ~5–10 cm s−1 into a closed basin. Ship-drift data have been used in the past hundred
Autor:
Wilton Sturges
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography.
A previous study of currents in the Gulf of Mexico by the author used long-term means from three independent data sources. Ship-drift results are in good agreement with surface drifters, but these two do not agree with satellite sea-surface heights (
Autor:
Wilton Sturges
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 46:2915-2924
Previous studies have found a puzzling disagreement between two large datasets and the results of numerical models in the central Gulf of Mexico. The observations suggest an upper-layer mean flow to the west of order 10 cm s−1, while the numerical
Autor:
Alexandra Bozec, Wilton Sturges
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 43:2673-2681
Two large, independent sets of direct observations in the central Gulf of Mexico show a mean near-surface flow of ~10 cm s−1 to the west, concentrated in the northern and southern Gulf. Numerical models that the authors have examined do not produce
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40:900-913
The Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico sheds large anticyclonic rings on an irregular basis. The authors attempt to show what actually triggers the ring separations. Pulses of increased transport through the Florida Straits, as observed by the cable
Autor:
Wilton Sturges, Kern E. Kenyon
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38:1501-1514
Several independent data sources suggest that there is a net upper-layer mass flux O(3 Sv) (Sv ≡ 106 m3 s−1) to the west in the central Gulf of Mexico, even though the western gulf is a closed basin. A plausible explanation is that this net flux
Autor:
Christopher J. DeHaan, Wilton Sturges
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35:1801-1812
The anticyclonic Loop Current dominates the upper-layer flow in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a weaker mean anticyclonic pattern in the western gulf. There are reasons, however, to suspect that the deep mean flow should actually be cyclonic. Topog
Autor:
Wilton Sturges, B. G. Hong
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 31:1304-1312
Variability of sea level on the offshore side of the Gulf Stream has been estimated with a wind-forced numerical model. The difference in sea level between the model and coastal tide gauges therefore provides an estimate of variability of the Gulf St
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 30:2088-2098
One of the puzzling features of sea level on the east coast of the United States is the decedal-scale variability; the fluctuations are 10‐15 cm, peak to peak, at periods longer than a few years. The authors find that this variability, in the frequ
Autor:
Robert R. Leben, Wilton Sturges
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physical Oceanography. 30:1814-1819
The most energetic events in the circulation of the Gulf of Mexico are the separation of large anticyclonic rings from the Loop Current. Building on previous work, the authors examine all the apparent rings since July 1973. This new dataset includes