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The western North Atlantic Ocean is the best-studied of the oceans both in terms of its mean flows and of its variability. A dominant feature, and perhaps the major characteristic, of mesoscale variability in this ocean basin is its very strong qualitative dependence upon proximity to the Gulf Stream system (see Schmitz 1978). The focus of this chapter is upon studies made during the POLYMODE program of the character of mesoscale variability at great distances from the Gulf Stream system.
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Wunsch, C. (1983). Western North Atlantic Interior. In: Robinson, A.R. (eds) Eddies in Marine Science. Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69003-7_3
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