drogueless
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drogueless (not comparable)
- Not equipped with a drogue.
- 1980, Ecology of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, page 2972:
- It appears that some buoys, in the latter part of their drift, may have been drogueless based on the results of certain buoys .
- 1989, Journal of Physical Oceanography - Volume 19, page 299:
- 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) .
- 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:
- Although 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