On the Structure of Ocean Currents (I)

Abstract

Though the author had once made a new current meter using a phototube[1] and observed many interesting facts with it already [2] [3] , it is very expensive to use it. Now the author has made another and simpler current meter which will record current speed fluctuations more minutely but directions more roughly than the former.With it he observed ocean currents very well and discussed about them.

On the Structure of Ocean Currents (II)

“…Observations have previously been made of turbulent fluctuations in the speed and direction of the tidal current at a short distance from the coast of Cape Kan'non using the author's photoelectric current meter W. On the same station, the instrument used was the other type of the author's [2] on March 21 and 25, 1956. From the series of observations, it was possible to derive some values for the auto-correlation coefficients and to obtain interesting results about dependence of the fluctuation ratio tt/U on the distance from the bottom.…”