SHORT TERM FLUCTUATIONS IN THE STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT OF THE GULF STREAM SYSTEM

1954 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM S. VON ARX ◽  
DEAN F. BUMPUS ◽  
WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Stream ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Stream System

Fresh water balance of the Gulf Stream system in a regional model study

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gerdes ◽  
A. Biastoch ◽  
R. Redler
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Gulf Stream ◽  
Regional Model ◽  
Model Study ◽  
Stream System

scholarly journals Modeling the Gulf Stream System: How far from reality?

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (22) ◽  
pp. 3155-3158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chao ◽  
Avijit Gangopadhyay ◽  
Frank O. Bryan ◽  
William R. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Stream ◽  
Stream System

How did they get here? The biogeography of the marine molluscs of the Azores

2009 ◽  
Vol 180 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio P. Ávila ◽  
Carlos Marques Da Silva ◽  
Ralf Schiebel ◽  
Fabbrizzio Cecca ◽  
Thierry Backeljau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Gulf Stream ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
Tropical Species ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Marine Molluscs ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
Oceanic Currents ◽  
Santa Maria

Abstract The geographical location of the Azores, midway between Europe and America, poses problems relative to their colonization and the biogeographic affinity of the biota presently living there. In the way of the Gulf Stream, originating off American shores, the Azorean biota, marine and terrestrial alike is predominantly European. To explain this distributional paradigm the present study investigates the Neogene fossil record of Santa Maria, Azores in order to establish the biogeographical relationships of the Pleistocene to Recent littoral molluscan fauna of this archipelago. The bulk of the Azorean malacofauna, both in the Pleistocene (71.3%) and in Recent times (75.6%) is biogeographically related with the eastern Atlantic, and that the Pleistocene (Eemian) fossil fauna is basically the same as the Recent fauna, with a few losses of tropical species and of shallow water bivalves associated to fine sand substrates. It is hypothesized that during Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles, short-duration events have occurred during which short-lived oceanic currents must have been established, especially during or shortly after glacial terminations. During these short-term events, the arrival of species to the Azores may have been increased and facilitated by temporary sea-surface currents that no longer exist now. Probable routes of dispersal to the archipelago of the Azores are also discussed, as well as the possible influence of the Pleistocene glaciations in the shallow water marine molluscs of these islands.

scholarly journals Subinertial response of the Gulf Stream System to Hurricane Fran of 1996

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (23) ◽  
pp. 3457-3460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lian Xie ◽  
Leonard J. Pietrafesa ◽  
Chen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Stream ◽  
Stream System
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