Index 



201 



Namias, J., 141 



navigation, by Loran, 15 



Neumann, G., 70, 114, 156 



neutrally buoyant floats, 178 



New Liskeard, 64 



no motion, level of, 19, 158-172, 177 



North Atlantic Central Water, 25 



North Atlantic Ciurent, 70; defined, 23 



North Atlantic Deep Water, defined, 32 



North Atlantic Drift, defined, 23 



North Equatorial Current, 33 



•Operation Cabot', 45, 51-52, 128. See 



also Multiple Ship Survey 

 oxygen as a tracer, 67 



Panofsky, H., 128 

 Parr, A., 68, 142 

 Parson, D., 14 

 Pattullo, J., 150 

 perturbation method, 126-130 

 Peter Martyr, 1 

 Phillips, N., 128 

 Pillsbury, J., 3, 8-9, 107, 138 

 Pollak, M., 34-40 

 Ponce de Leon, Juan, 1 

 potential density, 30 

 potential, electrical, 14, 69 

 potential temperature, 30 

 propagation of meanders, 52, 1 35 

 protected thermometer, 13 

 Proudman, J., 17 



Queney, P., 126 



radiation thermometer, 14 



radio navigation, 15 



radius of deformation. 111 



Rainbow, 5 



Redfield, A. C, 67 



reference level, 19, 158-172, 177 



Reid, R. O., 82, 95, 100, 102, 149, 154, 156 



Rennell, J., 6 



reversing bottle, 12, 62 n. 



reversing thermometer, 13, 62 n. 



Reynolds, O., 9 



Richards, F., 67 



Riley, G. A., 158, 184 



Rossby, C.-G., 62, 68, 78, 80, 111, 127, 

 130; critical flow, 114-115; wake- 

 stream theory, 104-107 



Sandstrom, J., 10 



Sargassum weed, frontispiece, 48 



Sarkisyan, A. C, 101 



sea mounts, 41, 132 



seasonal fluctuation : of Stream, 6, 143 ff. ; 



of winds, 75-77 

 sections of Gulf Stream, 44-51, 55-58; 



list of, 182-183 

 seiche, 68 



Sheppard, P. A., 80-82 

 sinking of dense water, 27 

 Slope Water, 25, 44 

 Soule, F., 70 



sources of Gulf Stream waters, 66-67 

 stability of meanders, 126-130 

 stable-meander model, 133-135 

 Starr, V. P., 127 

 Stockmann, W. B., 156 

 strategy of exploration, 60-62 

 surface currents, general, 22-23 

 sxu'face temperature, general, 24—25 

 Sverdrup, H. U., 19, 31, 70, 80, 133; 



transport equation, 100, 116, 149, 153, 



154; water-mass analysis, 28, 29, 33 

 Swallow, J. C, 163 n., 178 



temperature : measm-ement, 1 3 ; sections, 



34, 44-51; surface, 24-25 

 ten-degree isotherm topography, 112 

 thermoclLne: defined, 26; depth of, 112, 



122 

 thermohaline circulation, 100, 157-172 

 thermometer, reversing, 13, 62 n. 

 Thevet, A., 2 

 Thomson, C. Wyville, 9 

 tide data, 136 ff. 



time required for survey work, 62 

 Tolhnein, W., 62 

 Tolstoy, I., 41, 132 

 torque argument, 107 

 towed electrodes, 14, 56 

 transfer across Stream, 62 ff. 

 transient-current theories, 147 ff. 

 transports of various Atlantic ctirrents, 



164-169 

 T-S diagram, 29-34, 63 

 turbulence, 6, 62-65, 98-99, 106-107 



Uda, M., 152 

 uniform rotation, 91 

 unprotected thermometer, 13 



Sabine, E., 6 

 Sackville, 71-74 

 salinity : definition, 

 sections of, 44-51 



12; as tracer, 66; 



Van Dom, W., 80 

 Varenius, B., 3 



velocity sections, 55 ff. ; by direct mea- 

 surement, 58 



