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Originally published in 1965, this title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates the University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
From the original blurb: "Though it is only a small part of one of the earth's great ocean current systems, the Gulf Stream poses some of the most interesting problems in the science of oceanography. From early times, men have endeavoured to understand the Stream; today, often characterized incorrectly as a "warm river in a cold ocean", the Stream still holds a special fascination for scientists and laymen alike. Yet we are far from having an accepted theory of its nature and operation. The author of this volume is Professor of Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has spent many years in specialized study of the Gulf Stream. He has brought together and condensed the information available about the Stream and the significant theories advanced to explain it, aiming to make the book interesting not only to oceanographers, but also to geophysicists, meteorologists, geographers, and physicists. The study of the Stream may serve to exemplify the problems and methods of one of the most challenging of earth sciences."
