This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...have been on the whole a minimum air temperature over the whole earth's surface in the year 1904. POSSIBILITY OF A DISPLACEMENT OF THE OCEAN CURRENTS It must be taken into consideration that a fall or rise of the surface temperature in the fields of the North Atlantic Ocean investigated by us is not necessarily a proof ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...have been on the whole a minimum air temperature over the whole earth's surface in the year 1904. POSSIBILITY OF A DISPLACEMENT OF THE OCEAN CURRENTS It must be taken into consideration that a fall or rise of the surface temperature in the fields of the North Atlantic Ocean investigated by us is not necessarily a proof of corresponding changes in the temperature of the water-masses which are transported by the ocean currents. It may be that the changes rest merely on a displacement of these masses. The surface layers can for example be driven farther toward the south by the winds and yet at the same time the currents may be more rapid and their temperature in fact as high or even higher than before. In order to get a clearer view of these matters as they progress in the different years; we must have simultaneous records over the surface of the entire Atlantic Ocean and even then it would be difficult to decide if such a displacement actually took place. If we take the years 1899 and 1903 when the wind circulation over the Atlantic Ocean was particularly lively, we might consider that the Gulf Stream drift was displaced further southward. Yet in spite of this it could very well be intensified and consequently the temperature in the water-masses of the Gulf Stream might be raised and this would in its turn produce a rise of temperature in the easterly region of the ocean where these warmer water-masses are carried toward the north. But consider the year 1904. Very low temperature prevailed over the whole region we have investigated both west and east and can it be believed that the current was again displaced further south? Such an assumption appears to be very difficult to defend, since we find also in the far south fields covered by the Dutch investigations...
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