We hope to continue the collection and publication of these data on 

 an annual basis, and should be glad to include data of a comparable nature 

 from other locations . 



This work was supported by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, under Contract No. 14-17-008-62 with the Woods 

 Hole Oceanographic Institution. 



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 SURFACE T, °F 



J I F 

 1959 



A'M'J I J I A ' S ! I N I D 

 BOTTOM T, °F 



Figure 1 . The cycle of temperature at the surface (left) and bottom 

 (right) along the series of observation posts for 1959. 

 Heavy dotted and dashed lines indicate minimum and 

 maximum temperatures respectively. 



