ABSTRACT 



The report presents the results of cruise 25 

 of the M/ V Hugh M. Smith of the Pacific Oceanic Fishery 

 Investigations, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an 

 oceanographic cruise to the central temperate North 

 Pacific. The cruise surveyed the area bounded roughly 

 by 141 and 165 W. longitude and 24 and 38 N. latitude. 

 The report includes the observed and interpolated station 

 data, the procedures used in the analysis of the data, a 

 discussion of the general meteorological features of the 

 North Pacific and those encountered on the cruise, and 

 plots and discussions of the geopotential topography and 

 geostrophic currents, GEK currents, temperature, 

 salinity, temperature-salinity relationships, density, 

 dissolved oxygen, and inorganic phosphate. 



