Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T06:09:08.469Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Further Investigation upon the Water Movements in the English Channel. Drift-Bottle Experiments in the Summers of 1927, 1928 and 1929, with Critical Notes on Drift-Bottle Experiments in General.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. N. Carruthers
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft

Extract

In July–August of three different years common surface-floating bottles were set adrift at International Station E2 (49° 27' N.—4° 42' W.). With them, various types of drag-fitted bottles were also put out. The journeys accomplished are discussed, and the striking differences as between year and year in the case of the common surface floaters, and as between the different types in the same year, are commented upon in the light of the prevailing winds. An inter-relationship of great simplicity is deduced between wind speed and the rate of travel of simple surface floating bottles up-Channel and across the North Sea from the results of experiments carried out in four different summers.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1930

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

REFERENCES

1.Garstang, W.Report on the Surface Drift of the English Channel and Neighbouring Seas during 1897. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., N.S., Vol. V, No. 2, 1898.Google Scholar
2.Carruthers, J. N.The Water Movements in the Neighbourhood of the English Channel—North Sea Junction. Drift Bottle Experiments. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., N.S., Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1925.Google Scholar
3.Carruthers, J. N.Investigations upon the Water Movements in the English Channel. Summer, 1924. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., N.S., Vol. XIV, No. 3, 1927.Google Scholar
4.Carruthers, J. N.New Drift Bottles for the Investigation of Currents in Connection with Fishery Research. Cons. Internat. Journal, Vol. III, No. 2, 1928.Google Scholar
5.Harvey, H. W.Biological Chemistry and Physics of Sea Water. Camb. Univ. Press, 1928.Google Scholar
6.Cunningham, C. M.Report on the Drift of the Irish Sea. Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1907, VII (1909).Google Scholar
7.Carruthers, J. N.The Water Movements in the Southern North Sea. Part I. The Surface Drift. Ministry of Agric. and Fisheries, Fish. Invest. Ser. II, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1925.Google Scholar
8.Krümmel, O.Handbuch der Ozeanographie. Stuttgart, 1911.Google Scholar
9.Schmidt, Johs.Experiments with Drift-Bottles. (First Report.) Rept. Dan. Oceanographical Expeditions 1908–10 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas. Vol. III, 01, 1913.Google Scholar
10.Ryder, C. Some Investigations relating to the Ocean Currents in the Sea between Norway, Scotland and Greenland. Nautic. Met. Ann. of the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, 1901 and 1904.Google Scholar
11.Nielsen, J. N. Contribution to the Understanding of the Currents in the Northern Part of the Atlantic Ocean. Medd. fra Komm. f Havunders. Ser. Hydrogr., Bd. 1, Nr. 11, Copenhagen, 1908.Google Scholar
12.Platania, Gio.Experiments with Drift Bottles. (Second Report.) Rept. Dan. Oceanographical Expeditions, 1908–10, to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas, Vol. III, 05, 1923.Google Scholar
13.Gilson, G. Recherches sur la Dérive dans la Mer du Nord. Expériences II à XIII. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. No. 35, 1924.Google Scholar
14.Gilson, G. L'Exploration de la Mer au point de vue des pêcheries. Ostende, 1925.Google Scholar
15.Nelson, E. W.On the Manufacture of Drift Bottles. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc, N.S., Vol. XII, No. 4, 1922.Google Scholar
16.Marini, L. Lanci di galleggianti per lo studio delle correnti superficiali del Mar Ligustico eseguiti nel 1913. R. Comitato Talassografico Italiano, Bollettino Bimestrale, Num. 2930, Venezia, 1914.Google Scholar