Paper 22 



BOTTOM-WATER TEMFERATURtS IN THE GULF OF MAINE AND 

 ON btORGES BANK DURING SPRING AND AUTUMN^ 1976 



Clarence W. Da\/is 



Davis (1978) discussed observations of bott orr-wat e r 

 in the Gulf of Maine and on Georges bank and t 

 temperature cj^anges on fish stocks. It was general 

 that the inflow of Slope Water through the North 

 which lies between Browns Bank and Georges Bank/ wa 

 factor affecting changes in water temperature in t 

 the Northwest Atlantic. There was a warminq trend i 

 both the Gulf of Maine and on Georges Bank/ but 

 temperatures reversed that trend in 1?75. Data in 

 show a resumption of the .jarminn trend in 1976 d 

 negative air temperature anomalies during the autum 

 Atlantic coast . 



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