Understanding and Predicting the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current
Publisher: National Academies Press 2018
ISBN/ASIN: 0309462207
ISBN-13: 9780309462204
Number of pages: 110
Description:
One of the most significant, energetic, yet not well understood, oceanographic features in the Americas is the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current System (LCS), consisting of the Loop Current (LC) and the Loop Current Eddies (LCEs) it sheds. Understanding the dynamics of the LCS is fundamental to understanding the Gulf of Mexico's full oceanographic system, and vice versa.
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