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XXXVIII.—Observations with a Current Meter in Loch Ness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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One of the authors having made an experimental investigation on the currents produced in a trough of water by a blast of air driven along the surface of the water, it was desired to test the correctness of his deductions by actual observations in a large lake. Loch Ness was chosen on account of its length and uniformity of basin, as it was thought that the length and narrowness of the loch would lead to clearly defined currents being set up in the lake. The sequel showed, as in the case of observations on seiches, that it would have been better to confine attention to a smaller lake, for a twofold reason, (1) because in a large lake the difficulties of observations are much greater than in a small lake during stormy weather, and in very deep lakes the difficulties in the way of obtaining a fixed point from which to use the current meter are formidable, and (2) because it would seem from a few observations made in Loch Garry (Ness Basin) that currents are more defined and more regular in small than in great lakes.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1909

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page 619 note * The cost of the current meter and the necessary gear with which the observations described were carried out was partly defrayed by a grant from the Moray Bequest of the University of Edinburgh. The cost of carrying on the observations was partly borne by;a grant from the Carnegie Trustees. We have also to acknowledge indebtedness to Professor D'Arcy Thompson for advice, and for supplying a small but strong sounding machine for use with the current meter, and to Mr J. Davidson, Superintendent of the Caledonian Canal, for the use of a buoy and anchor and for assistance in preparing the necessary gear.

page 619 note † E. M. Wedderburn, “An Experimental Investigation of the Temperature Changes occurring in Fresh-water Lochs,” Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., xxviii. p. 2.