McBryde S3

Classifications

pseudocylindric
composite
equal-area

Graticule

Meridians: Where the central meridian extends across the equator, it is a straight line 0.44 as long as the equator. Other central meridians in the usual interrupted form are straight and half as long. Other meridians are equally spaced sinusoidal curves, bending slightly at latitudes 55°51′N and S., and all are concave toward the local central meridian.
Parallels: Straight parallel lines, perpendicular to the central meridian(s). Equally spaced between latitudes 55°51′N and S. Gradually closer together beyond these latitudes.
Poles: Interrupted straight lines totaling 0.31 the length of the equator.
Symmetry: About the central meridian or the equator (in uninterrupted form).

Scale

True along every latitude between 55°51′N and S. And along the central meridian within the same latitude range. Constant along any given latitude; same for the latitude of opposite sign.

Distortion

Same as the sinusoidal projection between latitude 55°51′N and S. Same as the McBryde-Thomas flat-pole sinusoidal projection beyond this range. McBryde S3 is almost always used in the interrupted form and has several central meridians.

Usage

World map interrupted to show oceans or land masses, by McBryde.

Similar projections

Identical with the sinusoidal between latitudes 55°51′N and S.; identical with the McBryde-Thomas flat-pole sinusoidal poleward of those latitudes, except that those portions are closer to the equator than they are on the McBryde-Thomas flat-pole sinusoidal projection itself.
McBryde merged projections in several other similar combinations, also in 1977.

Origin

Developed by F. Webster McBryde (1908- ) of Potomac, Md., in 1977 as a merging of the sinusoidal with the McBryde-Thomas flat-pole sinusoidal projection at the parallels of identical scale on the two projections, latitudes 55°51′N and S.
U.S. Patent by McBryde.

Description adapted from J.P. Snyder and P.M. Voxland, An Album of Map Projections, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453. United States Government Printing Office: 1989.