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Joyce & Stalcup 1984
Joyce, T.M. and Stalcup, M.C. (1984). An upper ocean current jet and internal waves in a gulf stream warm core ring. Journal of Geophysical Research 89: doi: 10.1029/JC089iC04p01997. issn: 0148-0227.

On June 22, 1982, the R/V Endeavor, while participating in a multi-ship study of a warm core ring 82B, encountered a strong front in the core of the ring. The vessel was headed on a radial section outward from ring center while a CTR was repeatedly raised and lowered between 10 and 300 m. Current profiles in the upper 100 m were obtained continously with a Doppler acoustic profiling system. Above the shallow 45 m seasonal thermocline, a curent jet of 4 km width was encountered having a central core of relatively light water and a maximum current of 1.1 m/s. This jet was both highly nonlinear and totally unexpected. A high frequency packet of directional internal waves was acoustically observed in the seasonal thermocline at the outer edge of the jet. Vertical velocities were large enough (6 cm/s) as to be directly observable in the Doppler returns. The waves were propagating from the northeast, parallel to the ship track, and ortohgonal to the jet toward the center of the warm core ring. While a nonlinear, centrifugal term was required for the force balance of the jet, the high-frequency internal wave packet could be explained with linear, gravets-mode wave dynamics.

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