Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
The final cruise of the NSF sponsored Warm Core Rings Program studied
a Warm Core Ring (WCR) in the Fall of 1982 as it formed from a large northward
meander of the Gulf Stream. This ring, known as 82-H or the eighth ring
identified in 1982, formed over the New England Seamounts near 39.5°N, 65°W.
Surveys using Expendable Bathythermographs, Conductivity-Temperature-DepthOxygen
stations and Doppler Current Profiling provide a look at the genesis of
a WCR. These measurements reveal that WCR 82-H separated from the Gulf Stream
sometime between October 2-5. This ring was a typical WCR with a diameter of
about 200 km and speeds in the high velocity core of 175 em/sec. Satellite
imagery of 82-H following the cruise showed that it drifted WSW in the Slope
Water region at almost 9 km/day, had at least one interaction with the Gulf
Stream and was last observed on February 8, 1983 at 39°N, 72°W.
Description:
Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under grant Number OCE
80- 16983 and by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration under Grant
Number NAGW-272.
Keywords:
Hydrography
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Endeavor (Ship: 1976-) Cruise EN90
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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