"The Equatorial Currents of the Eastern Pacific as Maintained by 

 the Stress of the Wind," Robert 0, Reid, Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography, Oceanographic Report No. 11. 



Ignoring lateral friction and thermodynamic processes, this 

 paper verifies that, in the eastern equatorial Pacific, the 

 predominant features of the distribution of mass and of mass 

 transport of water can be accounted for semi-quantitatively in 

 terms of the wind stress alone. It is concluded that the 

 longitudinal mass transport increases nearly linearly with 

 distance from the continent, while the north-south transport 

 is practically independent of longitude and is a maximum 

 very near the boundaries of the countercurrent. 



"Recent Shoreline Changes at Shirley Gut, Boston Harbor," 

 Robert L. Nichols, The Journal of Geology, Vol. 57-No. ..1, 

 Jan. 1949, pp. 85-89, 4 diagrams. 



The history of Shirley Gut and analysis of the physiographic 

 processes causing its closing and joining of Deer Island 

 to the mainland are briefly presented. 



"Annual Variations in Current Speeds in the Gulf Stream System," 

 Frederick C. Fuglister, Technical Report No. 15 on the Hydrography 

 of the Yifestem Atlantic, ffoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 

 November 1948, 10 pp., diagrams and Tables. 



"The purpose of this paper is to show that the many hundreds of 

 surface current observations on file at the U. S. Navy 

 Hydrographic Office also give what appears to be a consistent 

 picture of annual variations in the current speeds in various 



segments of the Gulf Stream System. " The Gulf Stream 



System is divided into ten segments, and annual current speed 

 variation from observed data and as calculated from harmonic 

 analysis with a combination of annual and semiannual periods 

 are compared. The comparison is carried further between 

 variation in current speed and component of wind in the direction 

 of the current, and current speed variation and tide gauge 

 records. 



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