Proceedings of the Gulf Stream Workshop Held at West Greenwich, Rhode Island on 23-26 April 1985

摘要

Topics included: Modeling of the Gulf Stream System - Local dynamics and non-local effects; Recent Gulf Stream Theoretical Work and Pertinent Observations; Data Assimilation, Mesoscale Dynamics and Dynamical Forecasting; Two Recent Views of the Gulf Stream East of Cape Hatteras; Modification of an Intense Oceanic Current system Flowing into a Region of Cooling; Bimodality in the Gulf Stream; Isopycnal RAFOS Floats and the Dynamics of Gulf Stream Meanders; Sea-surface Height by GEOSAT-A Altimetry; Structure of the Gulf Stream as Derived from an EOF Analysis; Gulf Stream Envelope and Mean Path between 75 deg. and 58 deg; Maximum Gradient Inverse for the Gulf Stream System; Frontal Geostrophic Dynamics; Analysis of Gulf Stream Mean Flow Energetics off Charleston, S.C.; Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Vortex Structures in Barotropic Beta-Plane Jets; Spatial Structure of Gulf Stream Current Variability Downstream of the New England Seamount Chain; Recirculation and the Deep Gulf Stream; Eddy-resolved Ocean Circulation Related to the Gulf Stream Region; Partial Solutions for Inertial Western Boundary Current with Continuous Stratification; Time Scales and Structure of Topographic Rossby Waves and Meanders in the Deep Gulf Stream.