Discrete eddies in the northern North Atlantic as observed by looping RAFOS floats D. R. Shoosmith 1 Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA P. L. Richardson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Physical Oceanography Department, MS#21 Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Associated Scientists at Woods Hole Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA A. S. Bower Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Physical Oceanography Department, MS#21 Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA H. T. Rossby Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island Narragansett, RI 02882, USA Submitted to Deep-Sea Research 2 Final Version October 29, 2004 1 Corresponding author new address: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK. Tel: +44(0)1223 221702. Email: drsho@bas.ac.uk 2 Published February 2005, Deep Sea Research Part II, Volume 52, Pages 627-650. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.12.011.