Circulation patterns inferred from the movement of detached buoys in the eastern Gulf of Mexico |
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| Institution: | 1. Climate Change Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;2. Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;3. CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;4. Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research, Bergen 5007, Norway;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom;2. College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea SA1 8EN, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The release times of five buoys, which broke free of moorings on the Alabama inner shelf, are known. The locations of subsequent sightings or recoveries of the buoys gave estimated trajectories of the buoys. These results show that the inner-shelf circulation is strongly wind-driven. When the Loop Current penetrates deeply into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, outer shelf waters are often entrained by the Loop Current. |
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