SOFAR float Mediterranean outflow experiment : summary and data from 1986-88

• Main Authors: Zemanovic, Marguerite E., Richardson, Philip L., Price, James F.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1990
• Subjects: SOFAR floats; Canary Basin; Mediterranean outflow; Jean Charcot (Ship) Cruise; Charcot; Scripps; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/996

In October, 1984, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution SOFAR float group began a three and a half year field program to measure the velocity field of the Mediterranean water in the eastern North Atlantic. The principal scientific goal was to learn how the Mediterranean salt tongue is produced by...