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Coastal Oyashio South of Hokkaido, Japan
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ABSTRACT
Coastal Oyashio Water (COW), the cold low-salinity water lying along the southeast coast of Hokkaido, sometimes flows into Funka Bay on the southwest coast in winter and spring. Because this water is low in density, a density current called the "Coastal Oyashio" was assumed to carry COW along these coasts. However, water property maps for April 1989, February 1992, February 1994, and February 1989 show that only for the latter month did COW extend as far west as Cape Erimo on the southwest coast. Steady-state flows were calculated using a baroclinic model and the density data ...
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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; ...the Mercator-based projections when properly applied...which tend to denigrate Mercator's work wholesale...through time of the Mercator projection misapplied to world maps. Although the Mercator perspective dominated...among published world maps, the book surveys ...
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The politics of cartography. (Mercator vs Peters projection)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...using the Peters map not only to raise...inevitability of map distortions but...emphasis of the Mercator and other maps. The Texas Education...the traditional Mercator image. Publishers...comparisons of different map projections. In Paramus, N...using the Peters ...
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MERCATOR'S PROJECTION, DISCOVERY OF COMPLEX LOXODROMIC CURVE TO BE DISCUSSED AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JULY 29
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Hessler, the Mercator projection changed forever how...Mercator invented the projection for his famous 1569...necessary to understand the projection, and he will provide...comprehensive collection of maps and atlases in the world...time. The Library's map collections ...
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The Mercator Projection.(Poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly
; The Mercator Projection The italic hand commended itself to map-makers of the 16th...Skelton, foreword to Mercator: A monograph on the lettering of maps, etc. in the 16th...hills. In 1569 Gerardus Mercator unwrapped the skin of...
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Gerardus Mercator (1512-94): known as the prince of modern geographers, Mercator was the first to use the term `atlas' and was the cream of the cartographic crop in an age of geographical discovery. (Late great geographers).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; For what is Mercator famous? A humble...universal vision, Mercator coined the term...term for a book of maps. In 1538 he produced his first map of the world (based...bearings. Known as the Mercator Projection, it revolutionised...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Squaring the circle; The history of maps.("Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet")
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...information for his maps aroused the suspicion...Only on his release did Mercator return to the momentous...experience at sea, Mercator knew what mariners wanted...tricky open spiral. Mercator's breakthrough was to provide sailors with a map on which they could...straight lines. His ...
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Truth In Mapping.(Gerard Mercator )
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...course on Mercator maps and navigators actually...them. Since then, Mercator's legacy has changed...first satellite map of the United States, pioneering maps of Venus and Jupiter...maps--all are Mercator projections. "Here's a man...
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Making earth flat: how to get a round object on paper.(Reading Map Projections)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic
; ...creating different map projections--ways of showing...Three different map projections are shown here. Each...OMITTED] ROBINSON This projection dates from 1939 and...is an equal-area map. Shapes can be shown...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MERCATOR Gerardus Mercator created this ...
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Global projections: can you draw a flat map of the earth?(Geoskills)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic
; ...COMPREHENSION: Which map projection is most commonly used...textbooks? (The Robinson projection is used most frequently in textbooks. This projection is a compromise that...DETAILS: What do all map projections have in common...differently in various map projections, ...
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GIVE IT BACK, MERCATOR MISLEADS
Newspaper article from: The
; ...for the editorial board MERCATOR MISLEADS Entirely contrary to the maps hanging on the walls of most...dramatic subtext was Gerardus Mercator, a German cartographer who...around it. Partly because his projection makes all the meridian lines...
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