Spatial and Temporal Distribution (1987-91) of 125Sb Used to Trace Pathways and Transit Times of Waters Entering the North Sea from the English Channel

In July–August of three different years common surface-floating bottles were set adrift at International Station E2 (49° 27' N.—4° 42' W.). With them, various types of drag-fitted bottles were also put out. The journeys accomplished are discussed, and the striking differences as between year and year in the case of the common surface floaters, and as between the different types in the same year, are commented upon in the light of the prevailing winds. An inter-relationship of great simplicity is deduced between wind speed and the rate of travel of simple surface floating bottles up-Channel and across the North Sea from the results of experiments carried out in four different summers.

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Temperature, Salinity and Plankton in the Eastern North Atlantic and Coastal Waters of Britain, 1957.: I. The Characterisation and Distribution of Surface Waters

Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada ◽

10.1139/f63-052 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 789-826 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

B. McK. Bary

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Coastal Waters ◽

Water Bodies ◽

English Channel ◽

Oceanic Water ◽

Climatic Fluctuations ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea ◽

Eastern North Atlantic

Monthly temperature-salinity diagrams for 1957 have demonstrated that three surface oceanic "water bodies" were consistently present in the eastern North Atlantic; two are regarded as modified North Atlantic Central water which give rise to the third by mixing. As well in the oceanic areas, large and small, high or low salinity patches of water were common. Effects of seasonal climatic fluctuations differed in the several oceanic water bodies. In coastal waters, differences in properties and in seasonal and annual cycles of the properties distinguish the waters from the North Sea, English Channel and the western entrance to the Channel.The geographic distributions of the oceanic waters are consistent with "northern" and "southern" water bodies mixing to form a "transitional" water. Within this distribution there are short-term changes in boundaries and long-term (seasonal) changes in size of the water bodies.Water in the western approaches to the English Channel appeared to be influenced chiefly by the mixed, oceanic transitional water; oceanic influences in the North Sea appear to have been from northern and transitional waters.

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1.—The Competitors and the Result

Aeronautical journal (London England 1897) ◽

10.1017/s2398187300146730 ◽

1906 ◽

Vol 10 (40) ◽

pp. 50-51

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

North Sea ◽

English Channel ◽

Long Distance ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea ◽

The Way

No fewer than seven nations tried to win the Gordon Bennett Cup in the race which started from the Tuileries Gardens, in Paris, on September 30th. But the wind was in an unfavourable direction for the accomplishment of a long distance record. To some, the English Channel barred the way, to some, the North Sea.The cup offered for the greatest distance covered has been accorded to the American aeronaut, Mr. Frank P. Lahm, who descended 15 miles north of Scarborough.It will be seen in another part of this Journal that in December next, Members of the Aëronautical Society of Great Britain will hear an account of the Gordon-Bennett race from Colonel J. E. Capper, who took part in the race, having accompanied Mr. Rolls in the “ Britannia.” In this account, therefore, it will suffice to merely tabulate the competitors and results.

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Thinlip grey mullet Liza ramada (Mugilidae) caught in a

Fauna norvegica ◽

10.5324/fn.v26i0.571 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

Author(s):

Bror Jonsson ◽

Nina Jonsson

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Total Mass ◽

First Year ◽

English Channel ◽

Grey Mullet ◽

Font Size ◽

Growth Season ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea ◽

First Year Of Life

Two individuals of thinlip grey mullet Liza ramada were collected in a southern Norwegian brook (58° 22’ N, 8° 37’ E) on 12th September 2007. The fish were 8.7 and 9.0 cm in total length, 6 and 7 g in total mass, and most probably in their first year of life. The nearest known spawning area of the species is south of the English Channel, meaning that they had probably moved at least 900 km across the North Sea during their first growth season. To our knowledge, this is the first published observation of the catadromous thinlip grey mullet from a Scandinavian freshwater course.

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Investigations Upon the Water Movements in the English Channel. Summer, 1924

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315400058410 ◽

1927 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 685-721 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

J. N. Carruthers

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

English Channel ◽

Average Speed ◽

Southern North Sea ◽

The North ◽

Westerly Winds ◽

The North Sea

In July, 1924, 250 floating, and an equal number of bottom-trailing, bottles were put out at selected places in the western English Channel. Fifty of each type were put out at each of the two routine Stations E2 and E3, and the same number was “liberated” at each of three selected stretches along the steamship route from Southampton to St. Malo. Those surface bottles, which did not strand locally, travelled rapidly up Channel towards the North Sea and across it. Many bottles arrived in the Skager-Rack after performing their journey of some 700 miles at the rate of 6 miles a day and more. An adequate study of wind conditions, as recorded at several stations along the length of the Channel and at one station in the southern North Sea, revealed the fact that there was, for some 5½ months (counting from the time of liberation of the bottles), an almost uninterrupted predominance of south-westerly winds—as recorded at all stations considered. The whole area of the Channel was swept by south-westerly winds of average speed of some 9 miles a day for at least 5½ months subsequent to the time of putting out of the bottles. July, 1924, had (according to the Falmouth Observatory records) the largest proportion of westerly winds experienced for 54 years; 20 days of this month had winds with westerly components. The association of the unusually persistent westerly winds with the rapid travel of surface bottles towards and across the North Sea is interesting.

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Sea-level related molluscan plankton events (Gastropoda, Euthecosomata) during the Rupelian (Early Oligocene) of the North Sea Basin

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw ◽

10.1017/s0016774600023507 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 83 (3) ◽

pp. 199-208

Author(s):

K. Gürs ◽

A.W. Janssen

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

North Sea ◽

Temporal Distribution ◽

Distribution Patterns ◽

Short Term ◽

The North ◽

Early Oligocene ◽

The North Sea

AbstractSpacio-temporal distribution patterns of North Sea Basin Early Oligocene (Rupelian) pteropoda (holoplanktonic gastropods: Mollusca, Gastropoda, Euthecosomata) are studied. These patterns indicate three short term invasions of a single pteropod species during the Rupelian. These invasions are indicated here as Clio blinkae Event, Praehyalocylis laxeannulata Event and Clio jacobae Event. The conspicuously short occurrences of the species, their abundances and some lithological features of the pteropod bearing strata lead to the conclusion that these plankton events are linked to sea level high-stands allowing currents from the worlds oceans to enter into the North Sea Basin.

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The Oceanographic and Biological Tidal Cycle Succession in Shallow Sea Fronts in the North Sea and the English Channel

Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science ◽

10.1006/ecss.1994.1017 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 249-269 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Fl.Bo Pedersen

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Tidal Cycle ◽

English Channel ◽

Shallow Sea ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea

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Distribution of eukaryotic plankton in the English Channel and the North Sea in summer

Journal of Sea Research ◽

10.1016/j.seares.2011.05.004 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. 111-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Sylvie Masquelier ◽

Elodie Foulon ◽

Fabien Jouenne ◽

Martial Ferréol ◽

Corina P.D. Brussaard ◽

...

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

English Channel ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea

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Calcareous nannoplankton and the age of the Globigerina silts of the western approaches of the English Channel

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800038711 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 111 (4) ◽

pp. 303-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

E. Martini

Keyword(s):

Atlantic Ocean ◽

North Sea ◽

English Channel ◽

Calcareous Nannoplankton ◽

Northern Germany ◽

Lower Miocene ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea

SummaryCalcareous nannoplankton from the Globigerina silts of the western approaches of the English Channel indicate the presence of standard nannoplankton zones NN2, NN 4 and NN 5, part of which can be correlated with Neogene beds in Belgium and Northern Germany. The calcareous nannoplankton support the possibility of a connexion between the North Sea Basin and the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel during part of the Lower Miocene.

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