Lagrangian Measurement of subsurface poleward Flow between 38 degrees N and 43 degrees N along the West Coast of the United States during Summer, 1993
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Collins, Curtis A.
Garfield, Newell
Paquette, Robert G.
Carter, Everett
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1996-09-01
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Subsurface Lagrangian measurements at about
140 m showed that the path of the California Undercurrent lay
next to the continental slope between San Francisco (37.80N)
and St. George Reef (41.8øN) during mid-summer 1993. The
mean speed along this 500k m path was 8 cm-s1 . The flow at
this depth was not disturbed by upwelling centers at Point
Reyes or Cape Mendocino. Results also demonstrate the ability
to acoustically track floats located well above the sound
channel axis along the California coast.
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Oceanography
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This research was supported by the Naval Postgraduate School, the Office of Naval Research, and the Oceanographer of the Navy.
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Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 23, No. 18, pp. 2461-2464, September 1, 1996
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.