Abstract
Abstract Combined use of satellite infrared imagery, and shipboard and aircraft bathythermograms provided near-synoptic observations of the movement and subsequent recapture of a Gulf Stream anticyclonic eddy by a large meander northeast of Cape Hatteras. The eddy drifted westward for over four mouths along the continental slope at speeds of 4–5 cm sec−1 before rejoining the Gulf Stream, coalescing with a large meander northeast of Cape Hatteras. The meander was subsequently observed for an additional month after recapture translating eastward at 15 cm sec−1. Meander movement resembles that of a similar feature observed in 1970 which resulted in formation of a cyclonic Gulf Stream eddy.
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