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This work is no longer being carried out at PMEL. Please see the pages titled Florida Current Transport from Voltage Measurements at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. These pages describe ongoing measurements of the Florida Current via submarine cables.
Transport variations in the Florida Current are being continually
monitored by measuring the cross-stream voltages using an in-service
cable between West Palm Beach, Florida, and Eight Mile Rock, Grand
Bahama Island, and an abandoned cable between Key West, Florida,
and Havana, Cuba. Fifteen years of these voltage-derived transport
measurements from the cables have been collected. The data are
being used in models of the circulation off the East Coast of
the United States, and to evaluate numerical models being developed
for climate studies. Voltage measurements are being made in several
other locations by a number of different researchers in the Pacific
and Atlantic oceans, and are in the planning stages for other
cables.