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Real‐time tracking of a Galician Meddy
Author(s) -
Paillet Jérôme,
Le Cann B.,
Serpette A.,
Morel Y.,
Carton X.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1999gl900378
Subject(s) - peninsula , submarine pipeline , lagrangian , geology , period (music) , tracking (education) , geodesy , displacement (psychology) , climatology , physical geography , oceanography , meteorology , geography , archaeology , mathematics , psychology , pedagogy , physics , acoustics , mathematical physics , psychotherapist
We describe the properties and displacement of the northernmost Meddy that has ever been studied. This Meddy was found to the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula in April 1997. Its hydrological properties suggest that it was born offshore Galicia, the northwestern corner of Spain. It was tracked in real‐time for more than one year using recent types of deep drogued buoys and Lagrangian floats, and remained quasi‐stationary for an unusually long period of 11 months around 45°N, 12°W.