Current Velocity and Hydrographic Observations in the Straits of Florida, the Caribbean Sea and Offshore of the Antillean Archipelago: Subtropical Atlantic Climate Studies (STACS) 1986

摘要

The primary objectives of the Subtropical Atlantic Climate Study (STACS) are to increase our understanding of the dynamics of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and to define which oceanographic processes are important in meridional heat flux. As the Florida Current has been shown to play an important role in the flux, the initial emphasis of STACS was to develop the capability to monitor the variability of oceanic heat and mass transport in the Straits of Florida.