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Science 1 December 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4371, pp. 971 - 972
DOI: 10.1126/science.202.4371.971
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Gulf Stream Ring Coalescence with the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras

D. RANDOLPH WATTS 1 and DONALD B. OLSON 2

1 Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 02881
2 Department of Physical Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843

A cyclonic ring, which had separated from the Gulf Stream 7 months earlier and traveled 500 kilometers westward, collided with the stream in September 1977. Within 3 days the ring and stream joined to form a sharp S-shaped meander. Shipboard expendable temperature probes and four bottom-moored inverted echo sounders were used to obtain synoptic descriptions of the rejoining process.

Submitted on June 1, 1978
Revised on August 28, 1978


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Gulf Stream Cold-Core Rings: Their Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
The Ring Group (1981)
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