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Journal du Conseil 1987 43(3):261-267; doi:10.1093/icesjms/43.3.261
© 1987 by ICES/CIEM International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer
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Drifting buoys in the Northeast Atlantic

D. A. Booth and D. T. Meldrum

Institut Maurice-Lamontagne 850 Route de la Mer, C.P. 1000, Mont- Joli, Québec, Canada G5H3Z4
Scottish Marine Biological Association, Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory P.O. Box 3, Oban, Argyll A344AD, Scotland

A series of satellite-tracked buoys was deployed in Rockall Trough during the period May 1983—January 1984 to investigate the circulation near the surface. Currents near steep topography were strong and tended to follow depth contours, as illustrated by a northeastward flow over the eastern slope of the Faroe-Shetland Channel and by a branching into the Norwegian Trench from northward-flowing Atlantic water. In Rockall Trough, a general northeastward drift was weak and was obscured by smallscale features of the flow, particularly eddies which were found near both the Anton Dohrn seamount area and Porcupine Bank.


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