Absolutely referenced geostrophic velocity and transport on a section across the North Atlantic Current
A transect of CTD profiles crossing the North Atlantic Current (NAC) along WOCE line ACM6 near 42.5 ffi N during August 1--7, 1993 provides geostrophic shear velocity profiles which were absolutely referenced using simultaneous POGO transport float measurements and velocity measurements from a ship-...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.42.1507 2023-05-15T17:25:16+02:00 Absolutely referenced geostrophic velocity and transport on a section across the North Atlantic Current Christopher S. Meinen D. Randolph Watts Olph Watts R. Allyn Clarke The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/postscript http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1507 http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/~meinen/thesispaper1.ps en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1507 http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/~meinen/thesispaper1.ps Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/~meinen/thesispaper1.ps text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T03:55:07Z A transect of CTD profiles crossing the North Atlantic Current (NAC) along WOCE line ACM6 near 42.5 ffi N during August 1--7, 1993 provides geostrophic shear velocity profiles which were absolutely referenced using simultaneous POGO transport float measurements and velocity measurements from a ship--mounted acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). The NAC absolute transport was 112 \Sigma 23 \Theta 10 6 m 3 s \Gamma1 , which includes a portion of the transport of the Mann Eddy, a large permanent anticyclonic eddy commonly adjacent to the NAC. The NAC transport estimated relative to a level of no motion at the bottom would have underestimated the true total absolute transport by 20%. A surprisingly large 58 \Theta 10 6 m 3 s \Gamma1 flowed southward just inshore of the NAC. This flow, centered near 1500 dbars about 200 km offshore of the shelf--break, was fairly barotropic with a peak velocity of greater than 20 cm s \Gamma1 , and the water mass characteristics were of . Text north atlantic current North Atlantic Unknown |
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A transect of CTD profiles crossing the North Atlantic Current (NAC) along WOCE line ACM6 near 42.5 ffi N during August 1--7, 1993 provides geostrophic shear velocity profiles which were absolutely referenced using simultaneous POGO transport float measurements and velocity measurements from a ship--mounted acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). The NAC absolute transport was 112 \Sigma 23 \Theta 10 6 m 3 s \Gamma1 , which includes a portion of the transport of the Mann Eddy, a large permanent anticyclonic eddy commonly adjacent to the NAC. The NAC transport estimated relative to a level of no motion at the bottom would have underestimated the true total absolute transport by 20%. A surprisingly large 58 \Theta 10 6 m 3 s \Gamma1 flowed southward just inshore of the NAC. This flow, centered near 1500 dbars about 200 km offshore of the shelf--break, was fairly barotropic with a peak velocity of greater than 20 cm s \Gamma1 , and the water mass characteristics were of . |
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Absolutely referenced geostrophic velocity and transport on a section across the North Atlantic Current |
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Absolutely referenced geostrophic velocity and transport on a section across the North Atlantic Current |
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Absolutely referenced geostrophic velocity and transport on a section across the North Atlantic Current |
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