The Gulf Stream

Author : Stan Ulanski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0807887102

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Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. Ulanski explores the fascinating science and history of this sea highway known as the Gulf Stream, a watery wilderness that stretches from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic. Spanning both distance and time, Ulanski's investigation reveals how the Gulf Stream affects and is affected by every living thing that encounters it--from tiny planktonic organisms to giant bluefin tuna, from ancient mariners to big-game anglers. He examines the scientific discovery of ocean circulation, the role of ocean currents in the settlement of the New World, and the biological life teeming in the stream.

Author : Henry Stommel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520318564

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Author : Henry Stommel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520362680

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Author : Erik Orsenna
Publisher : Armchair Traveller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1906598746

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Portrait of the Gulf Stream by Erik Orsenna Pdf

Concerned about the possible demise of the Gulf Stream, Érik Orsenna read, investigated, interviewed experts, and traveled from the violent swirls off the coast of Florida to the maelstroms of Norway to better understand this most important of ocean currents. Part homage, part investigation, A Portrait of the Gulf Stream allows readers to join him on a voyage of discovery. From writing about the sea as varied as that of Socrates and Hemingway to scientific theory both ancient and modern, we discover the secrets of this most powerful and mysterious current. Érik Orsenna is a Goncourt Prize–winning novelist and one of the forty "immortals" of theAcademie Française, where he holds the seat formerly held by Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Author : Thomas Frohock Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39076005572248

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Author : United States. National Ocean Service. Distribution Branch. Physical Science Services Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822023841331

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The Gulf Stream by United States. National Ocean Service. Distribution Branch. Physical Science Services Section Pdf

Author : Marie Stanley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0817306951

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This book is at once the story of a "white" mixed-race woman in a "black" world and the story of a "black" mixed-race woman seeking forbidden love in a "white" world. But the story is not a question of white blood or black blood, man's blood or woman's blood. Rather it is the blood of a passion for living, the passion that runs in the blood of those who are capable of loving life itself.

Author : Bruno Voituriez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822034537498

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The Gulf Stream by Bruno Voituriez Pdf

This publication explores the extraordinary natural phenomenon of the Gulf Stream effect, tracing its historical discovery and exploration, outlining its causes and dynamics, and examining its profound importance for the marine ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean.

Author : Maria McGarrity
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 087413028X

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Washed by the Gulf Stream by Maria McGarrity Pdf

This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.

Author : Harry Thurston
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781553654469

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The Atlantic Coast by Harry Thurston Pdf

Presents a look at the northern Atlantic Coast of North America, describing its ecosystems; forest realms; geological structures; the fish, bird, and plant life that flourish there; and the conservation efforts that have been made to preserve it.

Author : John Elliott Pillsbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Gulf Stream
ISBN : NYPL:33433090903521

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Author : William H. MacLeish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Gulf Stream
ISBN : 0241127882

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The Gulf Stream by William H. MacLeish Pdf

Author : Takeyoshi Nagai,Hiroaki Saito,Koji Suzuki,Motomitsu Takahashi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119428343

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Kuroshio Current by Takeyoshi Nagai,Hiroaki Saito,Koji Suzuki,Motomitsu Takahashi Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of the Kuroshio nutrient stream The surface water of the Kuroshio, a western boundary current in the North Pacific Ocean, is nutrient-depleted and has relatively low primary productivity, yet abundant fish populations are supported in the region. This is called the “Kuroshio Paradox”. Kuroshio Current: Physical, Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Dynamics presents research from a multidisciplinary team that conducted observational and modeling studies to investigate this contradiction. This timely and important contribution to the ocean sciences literature provides a comprehensive analysis of the Kuroshio. Volume highlights include: New insights into the role of the Kuroshio as a nutrient stream The first interdisciplinary examination of the Kuroshio Paradox Reflections on the influence of the Kuroshio on Japanese culture Research results on both the lower and higher trophic levels in the Kuroshio ecosystem Comparisons of nutrient dynamics in the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream Predictions of ecosystem responses to future climate variability

Author : A. R. Robinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642690037

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Eddies in Marine Science by A. R. Robinson Pdf

It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical mid ocean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these meso scale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually con siderably greater than the long-term average flow. Many types of eddies with somewhat different scales and characteristics have been identified. The existence of such eddies was suspected by navigators more than a century ago and confirmed by the world of C. O'D. Iselin and V. B. Stock man in the 1930's. Measurements from RIV Aries in 1959/60, using the then newly developed neutrally buoyant floats, indicated the main char acteristics of the eddies in the deep ocean of the NW Atlantic while a se ries of Soviet moored current-meter arrays culminated, in POLYGON- 1970, in the explicit mapping of an energetic anticyclonic eddy in the tropical NE Atlantic. In 1973 a large collaborative (mainly U. S. , U. K. ) program, MODE-I, produced synoptic charts for an area of the NW At lantic and confirmed the existence of an open ocean eddy field and es tablished its characteristics. Meso-scale eddies are now known to be of interest and importance to marine chemists and biologists as well as to physical oceanographers and meteorologists.

Author : John Elliott Pillsbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Gulf Stream
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107317885

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