INDICATED GEOSTROPHIC VELOCITIES AND VOLUME TRANSPORTS, CENTRAL AND EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO, WARMEST AND COLDEST MONTHS.
Abstract
To make comparisons to seven similar cruises, the geostrophic method of volume transport and velocity analysis was applied to ALAMINOS cruises 67-A-6 of 4 to 22 August 1967 and 68-A-2 of 13 February to 6 March 1968. An average velocity of 83 cm/sec and a volume transport of 27.5 Sverdrups was found in the Yucatan Channel in August and an average velocity of 79 cm/sec and a volume transport of 26.6 Sverdrups was found in the channel for February to March. A subsurface westward flow occurred in August along the southern coast of Cuba providing input into the Loop Current north of the Yucatan Channel. The Loop Current never crossed 25 degrees N latitude. A cold ridge extended from the Florida shelf to the Campeche Bank. An analysis of East-West volume transport in the central Gulf indicated a merging of east and west Gulf waters between 87 deg 50 min W and 89 deg 30 min W longitude for the MABEL TAYLOR cruise of 1932 and the ATLANTIS cruise of 1935. The GERONIMO cruise of February-March 1967 and cruise 68-A-2 indicated a merging of east and west Gulf waters between 89 deg 30 min W and 91 deg 00 min W longitude. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0712778
Entities
People
- William Louis Wunderly Jr
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School