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Title: Transport Variability of the Canary Current
Authors: Carmo Costa, Teresa M.
Hernández Guerra, Alonso
Comas Rodríguez, I.
Pérez Hernández, María Dolores
Vélez Belchí,Pedro
Fraile Nuez,Eugenio
UNESCO Clasification: 2510 Oceanografía
251006 Procesos del fondo marino
Issue Date: 2014
Conference: IV Congress of Marine Sciences 
Abstract: Referencing geostrophic velocities through LADCP data is a valuable technique to study ocean dynamics. This was applied to study the seasonal and interannual variability of the water mass transport of the Canary Current. This work processed CTD and LADCP data of various RAPROCAN cruises, from February 2006 to December 2012. The 18 CTD stations go from 18.5º-15.5ºW at latitude 29º20’N and from that point on until [30º20’N, 13ºW], through the Fuerteventura-Lanzarote strait. The water mass characteristics were derived from the CTD data, as well as the geostrophic velocities computed through the thermal wind equation. These velocities were then adjusted to the LADCP drawn reference velocities in order to obtain temporal variability of the mass transport of the Canary Current.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/114722
ISBN: 84-697-0471-0
Source: Book of Abstracts submitted to the IV Congress of Marine Sciences. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 11th to 13th 2014, p. 404
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