Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico : observations and models /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Sturges, Wilton, Lugo-Fernández, Alexis, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Geophysical Union, [2005]
Series:Geophysical monograph ; 161.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A synopsis of the circulation in the Gulf of Mexico and on its continental margins
  • Loop current, rings and related circulation in the Gulf of Mexico: a review of numerical models and future challenges
  • Upper-layer circulation in the approaches to Yucatan Channel
  • Eddy forced variations in on-and off-margin summertime circulation along the 1000-m isobath of the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2000-2003, and links with Sperm Whale distributions along the middle slope
  • Assessment of data assimilative ocean models in the Gulf of Mexico using ocean color
  • A statistical description of the velocity fields from upper ocean drifters in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coast sea level change
  • Eddies and jets over the slope of the Northeast Gulf of Mexico
  • Velocity and transport characteristics of the Louisiana-Texas coastal current
  • Movies of surface drifters in the northern Gulf of Mexico
  • Barotropic tides in the Gulf of Mexico
  • A regional data-assimilative model for operational use in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Altimeter-derived loop current metrics
  • The seasonal variability of continental shelf circulation in the northern and western Gulf of Mexico from a high-resolution numerical model
  • Low-frequency circulation over the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf
  • Cyclones and westward propagation in the shedding of anticyclonic rings from the loop current
  • Deep-water exchange between the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico
  • Bay of Campeche circulation: an update
  • Wind and Eddy-related shelf/slope circulation processes and coastal upwelling in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico
  • Intermediate-depth circulation in the Gulf of Mexico estimated from direct measurements
  • West Florida shelf circulation on synoptic, seasonal, and interannual time scales.