Surface Currents, Southwest North Atlantic Ocean Including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

Abstract

This atlas, and the series of which it is a part, is computer generated and automatically plotted. It makes available to the user the most recent surface current data collected and will be updated whenever sufficient amounts of data are added to the data file. This and the other atlases are based on a vast quantity of data as compared to the previous manually-compiled editions printed in the mid-thirties. The surface current information is based mainly on ship drift, which is the difference between the dead reckoning position and the position determined by any type of navigational fix. This difference describes the direction and speed of the current. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA108701

Entities

Organizations

  • Naval Oceanographic Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Gulfs
  • Indian Ocean
  • Navigation
  • North Atlantic Ocean
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • North Sea
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Persian Gulf
  • South Atlantic Ocean
  • South Pacific Ocean
  • Yellow Sea

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Oceanography.