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Hej Inger!
Please read the following articles.
http://tinyurl.com/hhx7w
A card can make it from Connecticut to Ireland.
http://tinyurl.com/imm4
This Oceanographer Ebbesmeyer thought it possible that the rubber
ducks
could end up in Ireland.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/ducks.html
I will have to quote some text from the last article.
"three drift casks containing messages released near Point Barrow in
1899 and 1900 were recovered 6-8 years later on the northern coasts
of
Norway and Iceland and the southwest coast of Greenland; several
bottles released in the vicinity of Nome, Alaska, were found
approximately 10 years later in Iceland, Ireland, and Norway; and a
drift bottle, released June 26, 1979, in the Bering Strait was found
in
western Scotland 7 years later on July 6, 1986."
Simply put; stuff can drift from Alaska to Ireland.
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pldec398.htm
In this article about drift seeds and fruits, we read about bottles
making it from Yucatan to Ireland.
The conclusion is that they could have reached Ireland from almost
anywhere. Therefore it is impossible to exclude any area.
mvh from a Mof that just has to post, now that there isn't even a
rerun
of any WC match to watch :(
(Skulle du vilja se Sverige mot Tyskland en gång till?)
Here's advice on how to sail from the north-east United States to
Ireland:
http://www.sailnet.com/collections/articles/index.cfm?articleid=carrmi008
And here's the story of a man who wanted to row from Massachusetts to
Portugal but ended up in Ireland:
http://www.oceanrowing.com/logs/Nenad_Belic.htm
Alan
"North Atlantic Weather
Weather systems across the North Atlantic are influenced by the
interaction
of the northern edge of the Bermuda-Azores high pressure system and
semi-permanent area of low pressure sitting near 60N"
I think the circumpolar vortex was farther north during the MWP, this
meant
you would get moderate westerly prevailing winds during the summer.
A bit farther north, but not much. The Labrador current has had almost
same
and the Gulfstream have had close to the same 'direction' for the last
1000
years. The only difference notable were for the western and the eastern
Greenland current. which easily can explain why the ship from Markland
in
1347 ended up the fjord it did.
The observation 'during summer' is on the other hand correct, but not as
late as the ships in question got winddriven.
(Whyte, Climate hange pp. 22-23)
Jamie
Inger E
I wouldn't have thought that the weather systems effected the ocean
currents
that much, although a deep low can effect the tides.
The Gulf Stream works like a Roman bath, take a look at a thermal map of
the
North Atlantic, the water is 5c colder in the west (NA coast) compared to
the east..
Jamie
Reason why the western and eastern Greenland current changed was the
changing that came apart during a period of 100 year before 'the little Ice
Age' started and than the effects there after. We still haven't reached the
climatologic situation that was in 1000 AD. The temperature has to rise and
much more Ice in Arctic will have to melt before the situation that caused
the changed especially in the northern parts of the eastern Greenland
current is reached.
To argue that the MWP changed any ocean current systems is even
sillier than anyone could possibly imagine.
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