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<\/p>\n\tThis study was designed to map circulation throughout the deep Gulf of Mexico with a large number of subsurface neutrally buoyant floats, producing new knowledge on circulation features and processes, and deep-water parcel transport and dispersion.\u00a0 The instruments used were acoustically tracked RAFOS floats (ballasted for 1500- and 2500-dbar), to map water parcel pathways, and profiling APEX floats equipped with bio-optical sensors, which profiled from the surface to 1500-dbar.\u00a0 A total of 180 RAFOS floats and 6 APEX floats were deployed in different seasons over three years 2011-2013.\u00a0 The final three seedings of RAFOS floats surfaced in spring 2015 and the APEX continued to report twice-monthly profile data through the end of 2015.<\/p>\n\t
Furey, H., P. Perez-Brunius, A. Bower, and P. Hamilton, 2014. Deep Eddies in the Gulf of Mexico. AGU Fall 2014, OS43B-1278<\/p>\n\t
This project was generously funded through SAIC by a grant from the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management.<\/p>\n
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Morey, S.L., Gopalakrishnan, G., Pall\u00e1s Sanz, E., De Souza, J.M.A.C., Donohue, K., P\u00e9rez-Brunius, P., Dukhovskoy, D., Chassignet, E., Cornuelle, B., Bower, A. and Furey, H., 2020. Assessment of Numerical Simulations of Deep Circulation and Variability in the Gulf of Mexico Using Recent Observations. <\/a>Journal of Physical Oceanography<\/i>, (2020). doi.org\/10.1175\/JPO-D-19-0137.1<\/p>\n Hamilton, P., A. Bower, H. Furey, R. Leben, and P. Perez-Brunius, 2019. The Loop Current: Observations of deep eddies and topographic waves<\/a>. Journal of Physical Oceanography<\/em>, doi.10.1175\/JPO-D-18-0213.1.<\/p>\n Ramsey, A., H. Furey, and A. Bower, 2018. Deep floats reveal ocean circulation patterns.<\/a> Eos<\/em>, 99, doi.org\/10.1029\/2018EO105549.<\/p>\n Furey, H., Bower, A., Perez-Brunius, P., Hamilton, P. and Leben, R., 2018. Deep eddies in the Gulf of Mexico observed with floats<\/a>. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(11), pp.2703-2719.<\/p>\n Hamilton, P., Leben, R., Bower, A., Furey, H. and P\u00e9rez-Brunius, P., 2018. Hydrography of the Gulf of Mexico using autonomous floats. <\/a>Journal of Physical Oceanography<\/em>, 48<\/em>(4), pp.773-794.<\/p>\n P\u00e9rez Brunius, P, H. Furey, A. Bower, P. Hamilton, J. Candela, P. Garcia-Carrilo, and R. Leben, 2018. Dominant circulation patterns of the deep Gulf of Mexico.<\/a> Journal of Physical Oceanography,<\/em> doi.org\/10.1175\/JPO-D-17-0140.1.<\/p>\n Hamilton, P. A. Bower, H. Furey. R. Leben, and P. Perez-Brunius, 2016.\u00a0 Deep Circulations in the Gulf of Mexico: A Lagrangian Study<\/a>.\u00a0 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study BOEM 2016-081, 289 pp. https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/ESPIS\/5\/5583.pdf.<\/p>\n