Fig. 5. Structure of the Florida Current within Florida Straits.
a Mean northward velocities (m s−1) through Florida Straits from shipboard acoustic doppler current profiler data from 70 research cruises of the research vessel Walton Smith between 2001 and 2018. Values are computed by interpolating all data between 26. 9°N and 27. 1°N from a given cruise onto a common grid using a linear scattered data interpolant, and then averaging over all cruises. For a value to be shown at a longitude and depth, data must have been available from at least 14 cruises. b As in a but showing the standard deviation in meridional velocities (m s−1) across cruises. Black lines mark the bathymetry.