Flow Kinematics and Dynamics of the Gulf Stream From Composite Imagery

• Main Author: Mullen, Caitlin Patrice
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 1994
• Subjects: Image analysis; Remote sensing; Flow kinetics; Gulf Stream; Oceanography; Spatial Science; Bower; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/oeas_etds/137; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1146&context=oeas_etds

A unique set of contemporaneous satellite-tracked drifters and five-day composite satellite images of the North Atlantic is studied in order to infer the near-surface flow kinematics and dynamics of the Gulf Stream. Using fractal and spectral analyses, two kinematic models, and a potential vorticity...