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Science 2 November 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4111, pp. 482 - 484
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4111.482
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Ocean Current Monitoring Employing a New Satellite Sensing Technique

A. E. Strong 1 and R. J. Derycke 1

1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite Service, Hillcrest Heights, Maryland 20031

The very-high-resolution radiometer on the NOAA-2 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite has recently obtained imagery in the visible channel containing sunglint over a major portion of the coastal waters off the eastern seaboard of the United States. An abrupt change in surface roughness has been observed at the shoreward edge of the Gulf Stream Current from Florida to Cape Hatteras that results from the opposition of waves propagating against the flow of the Gulf Stream.

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