In winter, winds blow by pulses through a mountain pass across the Tehuantepec Isthmus (Mexico) to fan out over the Mexican Pacific in the center of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, generating large mesoscale eddies.
The Ierapetra gyre is an anticyclonic gyre that forms as a result of wind interactions with the relief on Crete and of ocean circulation in the Kasos strait
Geodesy and geophysics
