Cold-core rings: Difference between revisions

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cold-core rings

Large (roughly 300-km diameter) cyclonically rotating eddies found in the Sargasso Sea, containing cold Slope Water in their cores.

They persist for several months, occasionally interacting with the Gulf Stream and getting destroyed in the process. A cold-core ring is formed from a large-amplitude Gulf Stream meander that pinches off to the south, trapping relatively cold Slope Water from north of the Gulf Stream within its circumferential current.
See also warm-core rings, Gulf Stream rings.

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-<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Large (roughly 300-km diameter) cyclonically rotating [[eddies]] found in the [[Sargasso  Sea]], containing cold [[Slope Water]] in their cores.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">They persist for several months, occasionally interacting with the [[Gulf Stream]] and getting  destroyed in the process. A cold-core ring is formed from a large-amplitude Gulf Stream meander  that pinches off to the south, trapping relatively cold Slope Water from north of the Gulf Stream  within its circumferential current. <br/>''See also'' [[warm-core rings]], [[Gulf Stream rings]].</div><br/> </div>
+<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Large (roughly 300-km diameter) cyclonically rotating [[eddies]] found in the [[Sargasso Sea|Sargasso  Sea]], containing cold [[Slope Water]] in their cores.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">They persist for several months, occasionally interacting with the [[Gulf Stream]] and getting  destroyed in the process. A cold-core ring is formed from a large-amplitude Gulf Stream meander  that pinches off to the south, trapping relatively cold Slope Water from north of the Gulf Stream  within its circumferential current. <br/>''See also'' [[warm-core rings]], [[Gulf Stream rings]].</div><br/> </div>
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