A numerical study of eddy steering by background flows
Gulf Stream warm core rings are intense, isolated eddies which form to the north of the Gulf Stream from cutoff meanders which detach from the Stream. After their formation they are embedded in the cooler Slope Water which flows generally westward, impinging on the continental slope near 70 W. Obser...
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28412 |