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	Flow structure and transport in the Yucatan Channel
		Our data corroborate the principal features of the flow through the Yucatan Channel: The northerly surface Yucatan Current and its southerly Under-current off Mexico, and the southerly surface Cuban Counter-current near Cuba; but previously unobserved mean currents are found to exist at depth, especially on the eastern side of the channel.
		A transport through the Yucatan Channel smaller than previously thought has significant implications for the dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico and its modeling, since this transport is the principal forcing of its circulation.
		Citation: Sheinbaum, J. Candela, A. Badan, and J. Ochoa (2002), Flow structure and transport in the Yucatan Channel, Geophys.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001GL013990.shtml (373 words)

	EXCHANGE THROUGH THE YUCATAN CHANNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The CANEK Project was initiated in December 1996 with the main objective of measuring the exchange flow between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea through the Yucatan Channel.
		In August 1999, an 8 mooring array containing 33 Aanderaa current meters and 8 upward-looking ADCP's, was deployed across the Yucatan Channel, fully recovered in June 2000, and re-deployed for final recovery on June 2001.
		The observed variability of the flows below the 6 degree isotherm in Yucatan is investigated in relation to Loop Current variability and eddy shedding in the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts/IB-02/IB02-92.htm (301 words)

	Cuba - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Cuba commands the two entrances to the Gulf of Mexico to the west: the Straits of Florida and the Yucatán Channel.
		On the east, the republic is separated from the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) by the Windward Passage; Jamaica lies to the south, the Bahama Islands to the north-east, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico to the west, across the Yucatán Channel.
		Two television channels broadcast in Cuba, and in 2000 there were about 3 million televisions.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761569844__1/Cuba.html (10305 words)

	The Yucatan Current (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The passage connecting the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is known as the Yucatan Channel or the Straits of Yucatan, although technically it is neither long enough to be a channel nor narrow enough to be a strait (Ochoa et al.
		Underneath the Yucatan Current there is a southward Yucatan Undercurrent that is an important part of the upwelling mechanism at the Campeche Bank (Merino 1997; Ochoa et al.
		International efforts to study the Yucatan Shelf were scarce after 1973 because Mexico claimed this area during the International Conference on the Law of the Sea as part of the Mexican Exclusive Economic zone (Merino 1997).
	oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu /caribbean/yucatan.html (1353 words)

	Marlin - The Yucatan -- Mexico's Complete Locale
		Almost all of the boats fishing the spring Yucatan bite specialize in light-tackle and fly-fishing techniques, and are accustomed to the art of teasing fish to the boat.
		Large sardines and cigar minnows escape the intense current of the Yucatan Channel to the south and stack up solid on the flats, in about 90 to 120 feet of water.
		Blue marlin swim the deeper waters of the channel, and June seems to be the best time for the 150- to 300-pound fish.
	www.marlinmag.com /article.jsp?ID=16877 (2005 words)

	Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Abstract: [1] The flow through the Yucatan Channel and into the Gulf of Mexico is a major component of the Gulf Stream and the subtropical gyre circulation.
		It is surface-trapped, is 180° out of phase across the channel, and correlates well with the cross-channel vacillations of the LC frontal position.
		Thus the dominant mode of flow fluctuations in the Yucatan Channel is caused by LC cross-frontal movements which may not be directly related to LC eddy-sheddings, while higher modes correspond to transport fluctuations that affect eddy-sheddings, and to bottom-trapped current fluctuations, the cause of which has yet to be fully uncovered.
	www.gfdl.noaa.gov /~gth/netscape/2003/te0301.html (531 words)

	Atlantis/Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Readers will be aware of the discovery deep beneath the Yucatan Channel, off the coast of Guanahacabibes in western Cuba, of what is purportedly a lost city.
		One from Tobago speaks of 'the ole moon breaking', while others from Venezuela and the Yucatan allude to a period of darkness, fire falling from the sky and the presence overhead of a fiery snake.
		Whether the stone structures discovered by ADC in the Yucatan Channel do turn out to be remnants of lost Atlantis remains to be seen.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/articles/atlantiscuba.htm (3001 words)

	Physical Oceanography and Recruitment Characterization for the Dry Tortugas Region
		The drifter emerged north of the channel on June 22 and proceeded to follow the 20 m isobath east and northward along the southwest Florida shelf to a latitude of 25o 50' N around the end of September.
		Also the occurrence of the gyre offshore of Looe Reef was coupled to flow increases (decreases) on the eastern (western) side of Santaren Channel and a temperature drop throughout the channel, indicating that the offshore displacement of the FC axis caused a splitting of the flow around Cay Sal Bank.
		The westward trajectory in Hawk Channel and the reef tract is sustained by local alongshore westward wind forcing that is enhanced toward the west by recirculating gyres and eddies north of the FC (Lee and Williams, 1998).
	www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov /tortugas/studyarea/lee.html (14183 words)

	MERIDA --- ONE YEAR LATER
		In my previous article, I noted that there were over 50 maquiladoras in the state of Yucatan from such places as Hong Kong, Europe, Canada, and the United States and asked the question, "...what do these folks know that you don’t?".
		This will be accomplished by dredging a channel; the channel and port depth will be 35 feet.
		It appears as though Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula are no longer one of the best kept business secrets in terms of industrial advantages.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/yucatan2.html (764 words)

	IASI November 1999 Panama Meeting Abstracts - First Author Initial "S"
		Hydrographic measurements of temperature, salinity and oxygen collected during the CANEK cruises in the Yucatan Channel are used to characterize the water masses and their variability in the region.
		Differences in the hydrographic properties between the western side of the channel (Yucatan) and the eastern side (Cuba) indicate the presence of shelf and Gulf of Mexico water masses on the western side.
		These temperature layers carry water of South Atlantic origin and the higher transports found in the Yucatan Channel corroborate a larger exchange between the Caribbean and the Atlantic through the northern passages, i.e.
	www.rsmas.miami.edu /groups/IASI/IASI99alf19.htm (483 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Ships entered the Gulf through the Yucatán Channel and rode the prevailing wind and current westward to the port of Veracruz.
		During the four major glacial periods that covered North America with ice, the sea level was lowered by some 100 meters, exposing the continental shelf.
		The waterway traverses the heart of the endangered whooping cranes' refuge with hazardous cargos of crude oil, benzene, carbon tetrachloride, hydrochloric acid, and other caustic chemicals; a mishap could be disastrous.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/rrg7.html (3618 words)

	GEOSTROPHY VIA POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSION IN THE YUCATAN CHANNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The geostrophic fields of density and velocity are inferred from the linearized potential vorticity that the same measured fields present.
		The method is applied to six LADCP/CTD surveys made across the channel in the springs of 1997, 1998 and the winter of 1998-1999.
		But the other 6 Sv of return flow on the eastern side of the channel, between 500 and 1500 m deep are likely to be the recirculating fraction of the Yucatan Current deep extension that is unable to outflow through the Florida Straits.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts/IB-02/IB02-19.htm (215 words)

	Gulf of Mexico Summary
		The Gulf of Mexico is a unique, semi-enclosed sea located between the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas, at the southeast shores of the United States.
		The southern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula belongs to the savanna climate, and between the subtropical and the savanna lies a small area of tropical dry savanna.
		It connects with the Atlantic Ocean via the Florida Straits between the U.S. and Cuba, and with the Caribbean Sea via the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba.
	www.bookrags.com /Gulf_of_Mexico (1489 words)

	Modeled and observed empirical orthogonal functions of currents in the Yucatan Channel, Gulf of Mexico
		Here a new analysis is reported that explains this difference, and that also suggests the importance of shelf-edge meander mode of the core Loop Current in the channel.
		The short-period mode may be missing or underestimated in observational and z-level models' analyses, since there were only a few moorings over the upper slope and shelf, and z-level models have step-like topography with generally lower resolution in shallower seas.
		Citation: Oey, L.-Y. er, and W. Sturges (2004), Modeled and observed empirical orthogonal functions of currents in the Yucatan Channel, Gulf of Mexico, J.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2004JC002345.shtml (348 words)

	Lost City Found Off Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Paulina is cautious about what lies beneath the glistening blue waters of the Yucatán Channel, admitting only that she is 'excited but reluctant to speculate until a joint investigation with the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society takes place early this summer.'
		Their 80-metre oceanographic reseach vessel, the Ulises, uses high-tech equipment and a highly trained scientific team to survey the ocean bottom up to a depth of several thousand metres.
		It was their high-skilled sonar software analysts who detected the reported underwater remains in the Yucatán Channel.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/articles/lostcity.htm (2415 words)

	Caribbean Sea - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Caribbean is linked to the Gulf of Mexico by the Yucatán Channel; to the Atlantic by many straits, of which the Windward Channel and Mona Passage are the most important; and to the Pacific Ocean by the Panama Canal.
		The Caribbean Sea has a counterclockwise current; water enters through the Lesser Antilles, is warmed, and exits via the Yucatán Channel, where it forms the Gulf Stream.
		Volcanic activity and earthquakes are common in the Caribbean, as are destructive hurricanes that originate over the sea or in the Atlantic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-caribbea.html (780 words)

	Some Fish and Some Fishing: XXIV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Yucatan Channel which divides Cuba from Yucatan, Mexico, is about one hundred miles wide and has a depth of 1,200 fathoms.
		The first obstacle the stream encounters is the so-called Sigsbee Deep in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
		The other half, the East Current, travels to the Bay of Biscay where it turns northward and, known as the Runnell Current, tempers the waters of the Channel Islands off the Coast of France.
	www.kellscraft.com /somefish/somefish24.html (618 words)

	The Connectivity of Eddy Variability in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The eddies associated with the Caribbean Current are primarily anticyclonic and transit a narrow corridor across the Caribbean basin along an axis at 14N to 15N with an average speed of 0.15 m/s.
		The amount of intensification depends substantially on the strength of the Caribbean Current and is greatest during a multiyear period when the current is anomalously strong owing to interannual variation in the wind forcing.
		The linear solution exhibited a multiyear anomaly in the strength of the Caribbean circulation that was concentrated in the central and eastern Caribbean due to a multiyear anomaly in the wind field over the basin.
	www.cgd.ucar.edu /cas/abstracts/files/Murphy1999_1.html (500 words)

	DANGEROUS, POLLUTED WATERS IN TEXAS FORCE DISTANCE SWIMMER TO RELOCATE TO PUBLIC POOL Training for 35-mile Yucatan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Torrential rains, floating debris, polluted run-off and beaches force long distance swimmer to relocate his training for the Yucatan Channel swim in Mexico on Aug. 5 to a cramped public swimming pool.
		Paul Ellis, 61, of Austin, Texas, distance swimmer attempts Yucatan Channel in Mexico to raise awareness of plight of ocean and coral reefs.
		Map of Mexico's Yucatan Channel and the swim route of Paul Ellis on August 5.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/7/emw138563.htm (1228 words)

	Wilma the Super Storm and Energy from the Vacuum
		I know it may seem strange to be watching something happening in North Alabama in order to understand a hurricane in the area south of the Yucatan Channel, but this is useful in predicting its behavior.
		This north wind will be the "dry tongue" of the storm passing over me. I read this to mean that the storm is going to track nearly due north at least for the next 24 hours.
		Moving this much water in the narrow Yucatan Channel is going to be spectacular.
	pesn.com /2005/10/21/9600193_Wilma_Energy_from_the_Vacuum (1654 words)

	MMS Publication 2004-040 - Strong Mid-Depth currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We intended to use three approaches: an analysis of all available current meter and hydrographic data, simultaneous analyses of 3 operational numerical models, and the working hypothesis that the strong deep flows were the result of topographic rectification of topographic Rossby waves.
		During the course of our work the results of the moorings across the Yucatan Channel (by the Ensenada group) began to emerge; these results have changed our knowledge and understanding of this important region of the flow enormously but have not changed our results or interpretations in the open Gulf.
		The variability of currents in the Yucatan Channel: Analysis of results from a numerical ocean model, J. Geophys.
	www.gomr.mms.gov /homepg/regulate/environ/techsumm/2004/2004-040.html (747 words)

	Surfline \| SPECTATOR SPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hurricane Wilma was positioned in the Yucatan Channel twirling in the slow-motioned dance of a category 5 hurricane on a drunken destructive bender.
		Because of its depth within the Yucatan channel, the focus of its swell pattern was directed straight north to the Panhandle beaches of North West Florida: Pensacola to Mexico Beach, Florida.
		This particular wave is a wonderful warping, wrapping, bowling left point with a sand bottom that reels for hundreds of yards.
	www.surfline.com /surfnews/article.cfm?id=1580 (636 words)

	Weather: Chantal pulls together, heads toward Yucatan
		It's too early to tell where Chantal will go once it reaches the gulf, but the storm would be a considerable distance from the Tampa Bay area.
		It is expected to weaken as it passes over land, becoming a tropical storm again before it re-emerges into the gulf.
		While most of its computer models show Chantal hitting the Yucatan Peninsula, one computer model that has been remarkably accurate this year shows Chantal veering more toward the north and entering the gulf through the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba.
	www.sptimes.com /News/081901/Weather/Chantal_pulls_togethe.shtml (382 words)

	One Man — Against the Odds -- Making a Difference: Paul Ellis Swims for the Reef and Ocean - Educator Seeks 1 Million ...
		On May 8, to launch his present channel quest and in recognition of May being National Senior Citizens Month, he became the first person ever to swim from Miller Dam to Longhorn Dam on Austin's Town Lake.
		He completed the seven miles along the Colorado River in three hours and 35 minutes, about the same amount of time it took to convince the City Council to lift its long-standing, no-swimming ban on the lake for the attempt.
		Sergio Sandoval is the expert consulting on Yucatan currents and environmental elements, along with his daughter Betty, a record-holding distance swimmer who also is a team member.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/6/emw135698.htm (1639 words)

	Gulf Stream Path
		As the current approaches the Caribbean Sea, water is funneled through the many channels of the Antilles and Caribbean Islands, and through the Yucatan Channel - where it narrows and gains strength - and then loops into the Gulf of Mexico.
		This flow enters the Gulf of Mexico at the Yucatan Channel and exits the Gulf at the Straits of Florida.
		The current is commonly referred to as the Loop Current while it's in the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Current when it leaves the Gulf between Florida and Cuba.
	kingfish.coastal.edu /marine/gulfstream/p2.htm (601 words)

	Things to do in Cozumel : TravelYucatan.com
		El Museo, located five blocks north of the ferry docks on the waterfront is a small museum with a lovely upstairs cafe gallery that looks across the Yucatan Channel.
		It's not as lavish as courses in Myrtle Beach but it is a beautiful challenging course worth the visit if you are a mini golf enthusiast.
		The Mexican name for the Atlantic coastal region of the Yucatan Peninsula is "Riviera Maya".
	www.travelyucatan.com /things_to_do_in_cozumel_mexico.php (1041 words)

	yucatan - Ask.com Web Search
		Today the offices of Cancun Steve are located in the Yucatan.
		The MexOnline.com Yucatan Peninsula map, rough guide to the ruins of Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Tulum, and the cities of Merida, Progreso, Celestun,...
		The Mexican name for the Atlantic coastal region of the Yucatan Peninsula is...
	search.ask.com /web?q=yucatan (265 words)

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