OF THE RECORD SHOW 40° rn 4 SEC, AND TIO° rw 30 SEC, 
220” a 50 SEC, AND I80° in 4.min. Tuuse RESULTS, 
COUPLED WITH THE SPURT CURRENT SPEEDS AND WITH SOME 
RESULTS OBTAINED IN EARLIER YEARS WITH THE PARACHUTE 
DROGUES, MAKE ONE SUSPECT THE PRESENCE OF EDDIES AND 
GENERAL TURBULENCE IN THE LEE OF THE BLANK, AND PERHAPS 
ALSO IN THE LEE OF RIDGES AND PROJECTIONS ON THE FLANK 
OF THE BANK, 1? IS PLANNED TO PLACE A GROUP OF THREE 
METERS AT ACCURATELY KNOWN SPACING, ROUGHLY IN 4 
TRIANGLE, WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF MEASURING SCALE AND 
DURATION OF THE EDDIESs 
Maurice BuarK, av Hupson LABORATORIES OF Co~ 
LUuMBIA UNIVERSITY, IS STUDYING TURBULENCE IN THE SEA, 
AND HAS RUN A SPECTRAL DENSITY ANALYSIS OF ONE 72 HOUR 
neconpD. Hz FINDS A SERIES OF PERIODICITIES RANGING 
rrom I% cycnes PER DAY (cpp), AND A RATHER STRONG 
2 CPD, TO A VERY WEAK 26 cpD. WITHOUT CURRENT DIREC- 
TION, SOME OF THE CYCLIC INFORMATION MAY BE UNDECIPHER- 
ABLE, SINCE THE METER REACTS TO ALL CURRENTS IN A 
HORIZONTAL PLANE, BOTH FORWARD AND BACKWARD. Hrs 
FINDINGS, ADMITTEDLY BASED UPON A SHORT SAMPLE AND 
NECESSARILY TENTATIVE, ARE AS FOLLOWS.e 
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