Eddy Forced Variations in On-And Off-Margin Summertime Circulation along the 1000-M Isobath of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2000-2003, and Links with Sperm Whale Distributions along the Middle Slope

• Main Authors: Biggs, D. C, Jochens, A. E, Howard, M. K, Dimarco, S. F, Mullin, K. D, Leben, R. R, Muller-Karger, Frank E, Hu, Chuanmin
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2005
• Subjects: Gunter; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1124; https://doi.org/10.1029/161GM06

In summers 2000-2003, NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and TAMU R/V Gyre dropped XBTs and logged ADCP data while carrying out visual and passiveacoustic surveys for sperm whales along the 1000-m isobath of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The ships also made CTD casts, particularly when/where the XBT and ADCP da...