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Overview - Bibliography

Bignami, F. and T. S. Hopkins, 2003. Salt and Heat trends in the shelf waters of the southern MAB, Continental Shelf Research, 23, 647-667.

Churchill, J. H. and T. J. Berger, 1998. Transport of Middle Atlantic Bight shelf water to the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(C13), 30,605-30,621.

Flagg, C. N., L. J. Pietrafesa and G. L. Weatherly, 2002. Springtime Hydrography of the Southern Middle Atlantic Bight and the Onset of Seasonal Stratification, Deep-Sea Research-II, 49, 4297?4329.

Gawarkiewicz, G., Ferdelman, T. G., Church, T. M. and G. W. Luther, 1996. Shelfbreak frontal structure on the continental shelf north of Cape Hatteras, Continental Shelf Research, 16(14), 1751-1773.

Kim, Y. Y., G. L. Weatherly, L. J. Pietrafesa, 2001. On the mass and salt budgets for a region of the continental shelf in the southern MAB, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(C12), 31,263-31,282 .

Savidge, D. K., 2002. Wintertime shoreward near-surface currents south of Cape Hatteras, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C11), 3205, doi:10.1029/2001JC001193.

Savidge, D. K., 2004. Gulf Stream meander propagation past Cape Hatteras, J. Phys. Oceanogr., accepted.

Savidge, D. K. and J. M. Bane, 2001. Wind and Gulf Stream influences on along-shelf transport and off-shelf export at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(C6), 11,505-11,527.

Torres, L. G., McLellan, W. A., Meagher, E., and D. A. Pabst, 2004. Seasonal distribution and relative abundance of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, along the US mid-Atlantic Coast, Marine Mammal Science, submitted.

Torres, L. G., Rosel, P. E., D'Agrosa, C., and A. J. Read, 2003. Improving management of overlapping bottlenose dolphin ecotypes through spatial analysis and genetics, Marine Mammal Science, 19(3), 502-514.

Ullman, D. S. and P. C. Cornillon, 1999. Satellite-derived sea surface temperature fronts on the continental shelf off the northeast U.S. coast, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104(C10), 23,459-23,478.

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