Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico [electronic resource] : observations and models / Wilton Sturges, Alexis Lugo-Fernandez, editors
- Published
- Washington, DC : American Geophysical Union, [2005]
- Copyright Date
- ©2005
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
- Additional Creators
- Sturges, Wilton, Lugo-Fernández, Alexis, 1955-, and American Geophysical Union
Access Online
- John Wiley: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781118666166 (electronic bk.)
111866616X (electronic bk.)
9780875904269 (alk. paper)
0875904262 (alk. paper) - Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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