Dodie is a somewhat popular first name for females (#4070 out of 4276, Top 95%) but a unique surname for both adults and children.
Beginning in the Caribbean and ending in the northern North Atlantic, the Gulf Stream System is one of the world's most intensely studied current systems. This extensive western boundary current plays an important role in the poleward transfer of heat and salt and serves to warm the European subcontinent.
Franklin's Gulf Stream chart was published in 1770 in England, where it was mostly ignored. Subsequent versions were printed in France in 1778 and the U.S. in 1786. Properties. The Gulf Stream proper is a western-intensified current, driven largely by wind stress. The North Atlantic Drift, in contrast, is largely thermohaline circulationâdriven. In 1958 the oceanographer Henry Stommel noted that very little water from the Gulf of Mexico is actually in the Stream.