Analysis of drifting SOFAR buoys in the Greenland Sea, 1989-1990

• Main Author: McCarren, David Hilton
• Other Authors: Bourke, Robert H., Gascard, Jean Claude, Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Oceanography, Garfield, Newell, III
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1991
• Subjects: Greenland Sea; East Greenland Current; Jan Mayen Current; SOFAR floats; Fram Strait; Boreas; Boreas Basin; Greenland; Greenland Fracture Zone; Jan Mayen; East Greenland; east greenland current
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/26354

In an attempt to gain a better understanding of the intermediate depth circulation of the Greenland Sea,16 SOFAR floats were launched into Fram Strait in 1988 and 1989. Between the fall of 1989 and the summer of 1990, five of these floats were tracked by autonomous listening stations (ALS) positione...