The Impact of Gulf Stream Rings upon the Slope Water,

Abstract

Gulf Stream warm core rings are the dominant form of mesoscale activity in the Slope Water region between the Gulf Stream and the continental shelf. Simple scale arguments suggest that the contributions of the 4-5 rings formed per year in this region could be very important in the heat, salt, and vorticity balance in the Slope Water. In this paper, we attempt to go beyond scale estimates and to derive approximations which suggest the magnitude of ring-carried and ring-influenced transport of a passive scalar in the Slope.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADP002662

Entities

People

  • Glenn R. Flierl

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bodies Of Water
  • Continental Shelves
  • Gulf Stream
  • Landforms
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Transport Ships
  • Workshops

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Oceanography.