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Submesoscale streamers exchange water on the north wall of the Gulf Stream

Creator:

Klymak, Jody M., Shearman, R. Kipp, Gula, Jonathan, Lee, Craig M., D'Asaro, Eric A., Thomas, Leif N., Harcourt, Ramsey R., Shcherbina, Andrey Y., Sundermeyer, Miles A., Molemaker, Jeroen, and McWilliams, James C.

Abstract:

The Gulf Stream is a major conduit of warm surface water from the tropics to the subpolar North Atlantic. Here we observe and simulate a submesoscale (<20 km) mechanism by which the Gulf Stream exchanges water with subpolar water to the north. Along isopycnals, the front has a sharp compensated...

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