Meanings
- not comparableNot equipped with a drogue.
It appears that some buoys, in the latter part of their drift, may have been drogueless based on the results of certain buoys.
1980, Ecology of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, page 29722 more examples
Attempts to correct the movement of drifters (of the same design as those discussed here) for windage have not been successful, either overestimating the downward movement of drogueless drifters (Kirwan et al. 1978), or underestimating the downwind movement of drifters with small drogues (McNally and White 1985).
1989, Journal of Physical Oceanography - Volume 19, page 299Although a drogueless buoy is affected by wind, some information on mean circulation can be obtained, especially since the drift was during the summer, when the winds are not strong
1996 April 15, James E. Overland, Phyllis J. Stabeno, Sigrid Salo, “Direct evidence for northward flow on the northwestern Bering Sea shelf”, in Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 101
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