The relationship between variations in the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and Straits of Florida volume transport

Abstract

Twelve years of monthly mean positions of the northern boundary of the Loop Current in the eastern Gulf of Mexico from satellite and in situ data have been compared with coincident 1977-1988 estimates of volume transport in the Straits of Florida in the subseasonal frequency band 15-1 to 5-1 cycles per month. For the 12 years considered in this study, the ensemble correlation between monthly position of the Loop Current and volume transport is essentially zero. -from Authors