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The pattern of anomalies of heat storage in the upper 100 m 

 differed considerably from that of surface temperature anomalies. 

 Only during the first quarter of the year was there some 

 correspondence of positive anomalies of heat storage and surface 

 temperature over most of the route along with negative anomalies 

 near the California coast. During May-July over the central 

 portion of the routes the positive anomalies of heat storage 

 persisted while the anomalies of SST changed to negative^ indi- 

 cating that the warm waters remained at depth but were covered 

 with anomalously cool waters at the surface. 



Toward the last half of the year negative heat storage anomalies 

 progressively appeared over a larger portion of the route at the 

 Hawaiian end of the section. Otherwise/^ the patterns of signi- 

 ficant heat storage anomalies were very spotty. 



DISCUSSION 



The oceanic conditions in 1976 on the San Francisco-Honolulu 

 route began with the relation between surface salinity and 

 surface temperature anomalies which has been typical for at least 

 the period 1972-75. This historical relation had banded and 

 westward-migrating positive (or negative) salinity anomalies over 

 the eastern half of the route accompanied by positive (or 

 negative) surface temperature anomalies over most of the route. 

 This relation continued in the first quarter of 1976 when 

 positive salinity anomalies were associated with positive 

 temperature anomalies. 



During midyear the relation broke down and 1976 ended with a 

 strongly atypical relation between salinity and temperature 

 anomalies. Negative salinity anomalies occurred simultaneously 

 for 1/'50C km along the eastern part of the route with positive 

 temperature anomalies--a reversal froti the previous relation. 



For the years 1972-75 an heuristic model with anomalies dominated 

 by advective processes could explain the association of positive 

 salinity anomalies in the outer California Current region with 

 wider spread positive temperature anomalies. The California 

 Current is the fastest portion of the eastern limb of the major 

 (clockwise) gyre of the central North Pacific. Along the 



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