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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2627| Title: | Evidence for an eastward flow along the Central and South American Caribbean Coast |
| Keywords: | Undercurrents Ocean circulation Caribbean Sea |
| Publisher: | American Geophysical Union |
| Description: | 11 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables.-- Full-text version available Open Access at: http://www.iim.csic.es/~barton/html/pdfs.html Hydrographic transects suggest an eastward flow with a subsurface core along the entire southern boundary of the Caribbean Sea. The transport of the coastal limb of the Panama-Colombia Gyre (PCG), known as the Panama-Colombia Countercurrent, decreases toward the east (from ∼6 Sv off Panama), as water is lost into the recirculation of the PCG. Off Panama, the flow is strongest at the surface, but, off Colombia, it is strongest at around 100 m. A portion of the counterflow (∼1 Sv) continues eastward along the Colombian coast as far as the Guajira region (12°N, 72°W), where it submerges to become an undercurrent beneath the coastal upwelling center there. The eastward flow also occurs in the Venezuela Basin, beneath the coastal upwelling region off Cariaco Basin and exits the Caribbean through the Grenada Channel at around 200 m depth. Numerical simulations suggest that this flow, counter to the Caribbean Current, is a semi-continuous feature along the entire southern boundary of the Caribbean, and that it is associated with offshore cyclonic eddies. It probably constitutes part of the Sverdrup circulation of the Tropical North Atlantic cyclonic cell. This work had financial support of the Colombian Institute for the Development of Science and Technology COLCIENCIAS, project 96-044 and the Colombian Navy. Also, the Office of Naval Research provided funding for C. N. K. Mooers and E. D. Barton during manuscript preparation. Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2627 |
| Other Identifiers: | Journal of Geophysical Research - Part C - Oceans 108(C6): 3185 (2003) 0148-0227 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2627 10.1029/2002JC001549 |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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