Gliders observations of mesoscale and submesoscale flow structures in the Gulf of Mexico: over three years of continuous monitoring.

Enric Pallas Sanz1, Miguel Costa Tenreiro2, Thomas Meunier2, Esther Portela3, Elva Rosmery Sosa Gutiérrez4, Marco Julio Ulloa5, Jose Ochoa6, Angel Ruiz Angulo7, Simó Cusí8, Eliot Aranda9 and Adrián Villicaña9, (1)Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (4)Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, Mexico, (5)Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CICATA, Altamira, TM, Mexico, (6)CICESE, Ensenada, Baja Calif, Mexico, (7)Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland, (8)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (9)Centro de Investigación y Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), BJ, Mexico