We used a combination of buoy the temperature and salinity gradients are largely tracking, intensive hydrography, satellite thermal offsetting in their effect on density. The imagery, and moored current meters to resolve the resulting density difference across the front in structure of eddies at the shelfbreak front in the at is only about 0.5 kg/m s, while the temperature Middle Atlantic Bight south of New England. difference is typically 50C and the salinity Eddylike features were always present at the front difference about 2 g/kg. in our study area throughout the 15-day period of The mean and low-frequency structure of the observations in June 1984. We found that hydrographic and current fields at the front are hydrographic features in our across-shelf relatively well known. We omit an account of them hydrographic transects that appeared to represent here and refer the interested reader to the recent the detached parcels of shelf water often reported papers of Beardsley and Flagg [1976], Voorhis et in the literature were, in fact
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