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78-1 The results of four oceanographic cruises in the Georgia Bight
01 Jan 1978-
TL;DR: Atkinson, L. P., "The Results of Four Oceanographic Cruises in the Georgia Bight" (1978). CCPO Publications as discussed by the authors, p. 301. And this report is brought to you for free and open access by ODU Digital Commons.
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TL;DR: In this article, the circulation on the continental shelf of the east coast of the United States is discussed, including the historical development of the concepts, and the surface and bottom circulation based on drift-bottle data and sea-bed drifter data.
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...The drift bottle returns (Figure 34) essentially confirm the results of Bumpus (1973). The offshore releases were within 45 km of the coast and not subject to the direct influence of the Gulf Stream which dominates flow at the shelf break....
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TL;DR: A conservative estimate of the onbserved volume flux of freshwater in the Gulf Stream was 1·2 km3 day−1, which is not sufficient to supply the oberved flux.
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