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Science 8 January 1982:
Vol. 215. no. 4529, pp. 161 - 164
DOI: 10.1126/science.215.4529.161
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The Coalescence of Two East Australian Current Warm-Core Eddies

GEORGE R. CRESSWELL 1

1 Division of Oceanography, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Marine Laboratories, Box 21, Cronulla, New South Wales 2230, Australia

Two warm-core eddies coalesced in about 20 days as their centers rotated around a point on the contracting line that joined them. In the process of forming the new eddy, the subsurface isothermal-isohaline "signature" layer of one eddy was uplifted and somewhat depleted while that of the other was depressed.

Submitted on August 21, 1981

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