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Water Movement and Sea Temperature in the English Channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. W. Harvey
Affiliation:
Hydrographer at the Plymouth Laboratory.

Extract

During the last three years further evidence has been obtained that water of relatively high salinity, from the Atlantic to the south-west of the entrance, enters the English Channel past Ushant (1).

It is of interest to summarize this evidence in view of the suggestion (2) that the English Channel is cut off from the Atlantic for considerable periods.

The surface samples of very high-salinity water, collected in the Channel by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, suggest the possibility of masses of oceanic water moving into the Channel past Ushant from time to time; and they further suggest that this oceanic water divides in the western end of the Channel, one part moving direct into the North Sea, through Dover Straits, and the other part turning and passing out northward between Land's End and the Scillies. This is discussed by Mr. J. R. Lumby (see p. 670 of the present number of this Journal).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1925

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References

Ditto, , 1906, 3rd Report, Cd. 5546. London, 1911.Google Scholar