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The Physical Geography of the Sea is published

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Maury's book, published by Harper & Brothers, drew the ocean as a connected system of winds, currents and basins and is commonly described as the first textbook of modern oceanography. It also propagated the claim that the Gulf Stream is responsible for the mildness of northwest European winters — an explanation that outlived almost everything else in the book and was not seriously tested for nearly a century and a half.

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  2. Maury's book, published by Harper & Brothers, drew the ocean as a connected system of winds, currents and basins and is commonly described as the first textbook of modern oceanography. It also propagated the claim that the Gulf Stream is responsible for the mildness of northwest European winters — an explanation that outlived almost everything else in the book and was not seriously tested for nearly a century and a half.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Gulf Stream
  5. Meridional Ocean Heat Transport
  6. Matthew Fontaine Maury
  7. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
  8. Connections
  9. Matthew Fontaine Maury
  10. Gulf Stream
  11. Meridional Ocean Heat Transport
  12. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
  13. The Brussels maritime conference standardises ocean observation
  14. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
  15. The Brussels maritime conference standardises ocean observation
  16. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
  17. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
  18. Western Intensification of Wind-Driven Gyres
  19. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
  20. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
  21. North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
  22. RAPID-MOCHA-WBTS Array at 26.5°N
  23. The Gulf Stream is charted to explain slow mail
  24. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
  25. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
  26. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
  27. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
  28. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
  29. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
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  31. The first comprehensive treatment of ocean winds and currents as a system, compiled from standardised ships' logbooks; commonly described as the first textbook of modern oceanography. The digitised volume was identified but not read; biographical facts about Maury come from Naval History and Heritage Command and encyclopaedia entries read via search summary.
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