Proceedings of the Gulf Stream Workshop Held at West Greenwich, Rhode Island on 23-26 April 1985,

Abstract

Topics included: Modeling of the Gulf Stream System - Local dynamics and non-local effects; Recent Gulf Stream Theoretical Work and Pertinent Observations; Data Assimilation, Mesoscale Dynamics and Dynamical Forecasting; Two Recent Views of the Gulf Stream East of Cape Hatteras; Modification of an Intense Oceanic Current system Flowing into a Region of Cooling; Bimodality in the Gulf Stream; Isopycnal RAFOS Floats and the Dynamics of Gulf Stream Meanders; Sea-surface Height by GEOSAT-A Altimetry; Structure of the Gulf Stream as Derived from an EOF Analysis; Gulf Stream Envelope and Mean Path between 75 deg. and 58 deg; Maximum Gradient Inverse for the Gulf Stream System; Frontal Geostrophic Dynamics; Analysis of Gulf Stream Mean Flow Energetics off Charleston, S.C.; Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Vortex Structures in Barotropic Beta-Plane Jets; Spatial Structure of Gulf Stream Current Variability Downstream of the New England Seamount Chain; Recirculation and the Deep Gulf Stream; Eddy-resolved Ocean Circulation Related to the Gulf Stream Region; Partial Solutions for Inertial Western Boundary Current with Continuous Stratification; Time Scales and Structure of Topographic Rossby Waves and Meanders in the Deep Gulf Stream.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA162506

Entities

People

  • Dennis Randolph Watts

Organizations

  • University of Rhode Island

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Ridges
  • Standing Waves
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.