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"IE J" <inger_e.johansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Vaughan Sanders" <vjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Alan Crozier" <name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > "mof" <moflkb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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>> > 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
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