The Gulf Stream: A Physical and Dynamical Description
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4 The Gulf Stream System
N. P. Fofonoff In the two decades since the first publication of Stommel's (1965) monograph on the Gulf Stream, our knowledge of the Gulf Stream System has been expanded dramatically through the development and application of new, powerful measuring techniques. Multiple ship surveys of the type organized by Fuglister (1963) provided the first systematic descriptions of the spatial structure bet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geographical Review
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0016-7428
DOI: 10.2307/212353