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1. Loop Current

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   The Loop Current is characterized by its strong geostrophic balance, possessing a core of anomalously warm water that often exceeds $27^\circ \text{C}$ year-round. Its path traces a large, clockwise (anticyclonic) loop across the southeastern Gulf, originating near the Yucatán Channel, sweeping northward across the south-central Gulf, turning eastward along the continental shelf of Florida, and exiting southward as the Florida Current [2].
   The current's mean velocity at its core is…