The Gulf Stream

Author : Stan Ulanski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807887103
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Stream written by Stan Ulanski and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0520318560
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Stream written by Henry Stommel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marie Stanley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817306953
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulf Stream written by Marie Stanley and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Stream written by Bruno Voituriez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780874130287
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washed by the Gulf Stream written by Maria McGarrity and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry Stommel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520362683
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Stream written by Henry Stommel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781906598747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of the Gulf Stream written by Erik Orsenna and published by Armchair Traveller. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Takeyoshi Nagai
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119428343
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kuroshio Current written by Takeyoshi Nagai and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 3642690033
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eddies in Marine Science written by A. R. Robinson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harry Thurston
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553654463
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Coast written by Harry Thurston and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.