PMEL Publications Abstract

FY 1970

Results from some parachute drogue measurements in the central North Pacific Ocean, 1961–1962

Reed, R.K.

NOAA Tech. Report ERL 191-POL5, 9 pp (1970)

This report presents the paths of seven parachute drogues tracked in the North Pacific Ocean during 1961 and 1962. In the Alaskan Stream near 161°W, four drogues moved in a clockwise gyre in agreement with meanders in the Stream suggested by other data. A drogue farther east in the Stream moved at 36 cm/sec, 240°t. A semidiurnal flow of about 10 cm/sec was superimposed on the net flow. Two drogues near 27°N, 160°W drifted southwest at speeds in excess of 25 cm/sec, and there is some suggestion of periodic motion in the paths.

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