Measurements of the California current in March 1958

Abstract

Two sets of drogues were placed approximately normal to the usual flow and followed for one and three days respectively. The first set, which extended thirty miles offshore, drifted south-eastward. The second set, which extended from thirty to seventy miles offshore, also moved south-eastward but with considerable variation in speed and direction along the line. In the latter set two rapidly moving streams appeared with a body of slower water between.