Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, E.G.&G., National Marine Fisheries
Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution have conducted separate moored array experiments during 1974-
1980 to study various aspects of the regional circulation in the Gulf of
Maine and adjacent Scotian and New England shelf and slope regions.
The mean currents and current variances measured in these experiments
are summarized here in tabular and graphical form, together with other
information about each experiment. While there have been few measurements
made in the interior of the Gulf of Maine, the map of mean subsurface
currents demonstrate (a) a net inflow of Scotian shelf water past Cape
Sable into the Gulf, (b) a net inflow of slope water through the Northeast
Channel into the Gulf, (c) a partially closed anticyclonic circulation
around Georges Bank, and (d) a net outflow of shelf water south of Nantucket
from the Gulf of Maine into the New England shelf.
Description:
Funding was provided by the Department of Interior,
Bureau of Land Management under Contract AA 551-MU0-18
and by the National Science Foundation under Grant
OCE 80-14941.
Keywords:
Ocean currents
;
Ocean circulation
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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