AbstractBetween Florida and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the Gulf Stream carries warm, salty waters poleward along the continental slope. This strong current abuts the edge of the South Atlantic Bight (SAB) continental shelf and is thought to influence exchange of waters between the open ocean and the shelf. Observations from a pair of instruments deployed for 19 months in the northern SAB are used here to examine the processes by which the Gulf Stream can impact this exchange. The instrument deployed on the SAB shelf edge shows that the timeâaveraged alongâslope flow is surfaceâintensified with only few flow reversals at low frequencies (>40âday period). Timeâaveraged crossâslope flow is onto the SAB shelf in a lower layer and offâshelf above. Consistent with Ekman dynamics, the magnitude of lowerâlayer onâshelf flow is correlated with the alongâslope velocity, which is in turn controlled by the position and/or transport of the Gulf Stream that flows poleward along the SAB continental slope. In the frequency band associated with downstreamâpropagating waveâlike meanders of the Gulf Stream jet (2â15 day period), currents at the shelfâedge are characterized by surfaceâintensified flow in the alongâ and crossâslope directions. Estimates of maximum upwelling velocities associated with cyclonic frontal eddies between meander crests occasionally reach 100 m/day.