Gulf Stream warm‐core ring collection: An introduction

The collection of papers that follows evolved out of presentations given at a warm-core rings workshop at the Alton Jones Conference Center, University of Rhode Island, in August 1984. At that time it became clear that a number of investigators in the Warm-Core Rings Program had reached a stage where they were completing the analysis of their individual data sets and models. Some of these studies were interrelated, and others were not. Our aim in collecting these investigations is not to present an integrated synthesis of Gulf Stream warm-core rings but rather to provide a forum where some of our initial results can be focused.