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    Free drifting buoy trajectories in the Gulf Stream system : 1975-1978 : a data report

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    1979-01
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    Richardson, Philip L.  Concept link
    Wheat, Jeffrey J.  Concept link
    Bennett, Dolphus  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10398
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/10398
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     Oceanographic buoys; Ocean circulation; Gulf Stream 
    Abstract
    From 1975 to 1978, thirty-one satellite-tracked free-drifting surface buoys were launched in the Gulf Stream system. Most of these buoys were launched in cyclonic rings, as part of an interdisciplinary Gulf Stream ring experiment, Other buoys were launched in anticyclonic rings and the Gulf Stream itself; one buoy was launched in a cyclonic Kuroshio ring. The basic data set consists of buoy trajectories and sea surface temperature and velocity measurements along trajectories. The main results consist of a series of 19 buoy trajectories in rings from which the movement of rings is inferred and a series of 20 buoy trajectories in the Gulf Stream. Rings frequently coalesced with the Gulf Stream, and some reformed as modified rings. The trajectories of buoys in the Stream reveal that at times surface currents are strongly influenced by topographic features such as seamounts and ridges. Most buoys in the Stream continued to move eastward until they reached the vicinity of the Grand Banks (50°W) where they rapidly fanned out, some moving northward, others eastward across the mid-Atlantic Ridge, still others southward and westward .
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    Richardson, P. L., Wheat, J. J., & Bennett, D. (1979). Free drifting buoy trajectories in the Gulf Stream system: 1975-1978: a data report. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/10398
     

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