Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T08:10:29.044Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

2. On Ocean Circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

John Aitken
Get access

Extract

It is with extreme reluctance that I venture to disturb the present repose of the much-contested field of ocean circulation. My object is not, however, to provoke discussion on the general theory of ocean circulation, as I am sure all will agree in thinking that the subject has already been discussed far beyond the point at which it is likely to be benefited by discussion. My object is simply to call attention to certain influences at work in the ocean, the effects of which seem to have been totally overlooked.

Type
Proceedings 1876-77
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 9 , 1878 , pp. 394 - 400
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1878

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 395 note * The trough in which the experiment is made must have sloping and not vertical ends, because if the wind-driven current strikes against a vertical surface, it raises a “head,” which causes a vertical current to descend at the end of the trough, in addition to the two return surface currents.