American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy (1914)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Logan, George Wood, 1868-1915, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment · Washington, Govt. Print. Off · leaf 215
, and the direction of the wind at any point, instead of being identical withthat of the gradient at that point, is deflected by a certain amount, crossing thelatter at an angle which in practice varies between 45° and 90° (4 to 8 compasspoints), the wind in the latter case blowing parallel to the… … FIG. 69. WINDS. 209 northeasterly—the NE. trade; the southerly winds of the polar slope become southwesterly—the prevailing westerly winds of northern latitudes. So, too, for thesouthern hemisphere, the southerly winds of the equatorial slope here becomingsoutheasterly—the SE. trades; the northerly…
Navigation · Nautical astronomy
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