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Science 8 December 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4372, pp. 1085 - 1087
DOI: 10.1126/science.202.4372.1085
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Mediterranean Water: An Intense Mesoscale Eddy off the Bahamas

SCOTT E. McDOWELL 1 and H. THOMAS ROSSBY 1

1 Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston

An anticyclonic lens of water in the permanent thermocline off the Bahamas has water mass characteristics representing Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic central waters. This eddy's ability to translate across the Atlantic without losing its identity points to baroclinic eddies as a specific mechanism for large-scale mixing.

Submitted on March 16, 1978
Revised on August 7, 1978

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