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On The Mutual Adjustment Of Pres Sure And Velocity Distributions In Certain Simple Current Systems

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The writer (/) recently advanced the hypothesis that the horizontal
pressure gradients observed in the current systems of the atmosphere and
the ocean to a large extent must be interpreted as reactions to the Coriolis’
forces impressed upon these systems by the rotation of the earth. Observa
tional support for this point of view was found in the fact that both the
temperature-salinity and oxygen-salinity correlation curves obtained from
stations on both sides of the Gulf Stream in the region between Nova
Scotia and Bermuda are very nearly identical, even though the individual
isotherms may drop as much as 700 meters between the slope water basin
and the Sargasso Sea. This mass distribution and the resulting pressure
distribution arc most readily interpreted as the residt of a continuous
banking process caused by the action of the Coriolis’ forces on the moving
masses of the Gulf Stream system.

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551.46 Rob o

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: SEARS FOUNDATION: JOURNAL OF MARINE RESEARCH., 1937

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English

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551.46

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oceanography

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