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IN the past four years direct measurements of the tidal streams in the northern Irish Sea have been made synoptically over an extensive area and at various points in the water column. Before these studies, the circulation of the sea was largely a matter of qualitative deduction, based on surface temperature and salinity charts, the movement of surface drift bottles and a few rather broad-based estimates of water transport derived from consideration of the continuity equations for a variety of parameters1.
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RAMSTER, J., HILL, H. Current System in the Northern Irish Sea. Nature 224, 59–61 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224059a0
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