Caribbean-Atlantic Exchange Through Mona Passage

• Main Authors: Capella, Jorge E, Mercado, Aurelio
• Other Authors: PUERTO RICO UNIV MAYAGUEZ DEPT OF MARINE SCIENCES
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Meteorology; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *AIR WATER INTERACTIONS; *CARIBBEAN SEA; *NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; *OCEAN CURRENTS; FLOW; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT; VARIATIONS; MONA PASSAGE; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA618394; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA618394

Our long-term goal is to characterize and understand the physical oceanographic and atmospheric processes that determine the structure, circulation and variability of the northeastern Caribbean Sea and of the adjacent western tropical Atlantic. The main scientific objective in this project is to accurately measure the exchange of North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea waters through Mona Passage and to determine the mean transport and flow variability at time scales from hourly to interannual.