sea (height) are given according to codes in the 

 Bathythermograph Observation Log published 

 by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office. 



Temperature, salinity, density, ther- 

 mosteric anomaly, and dynamic height 

 anomaly 



Temperature was measured with standard 

 reversing thermometers. Nansen bottle spacing 

 in the upper 150 m. was determined by the 

 thermal structure as shown by a BT, and an 

 attempt was made to place bottles, in this part 

 of the water column, at intervals of equal 

 temperature rather than at intervals of equal 

 depth. 



Salinity was determined (ashore) by convert- 

 ing from chlorinity determinations made by 

 the Knudsen method. 



Processing of the data was carried out by 

 the Data Collection and Processing Group, 

 Division of Marine Resources, Scripps Institu- 

 tion of Oceanography, using the method of 

 Klein. 1 The 125-m. level was introduced into 

 the integration to obtain greater accuracy in 

 the determination of A D (geopotential anomaly). 

 The interpolated values at 125 m. are not 

 tabulated. 



Temperatures from reversing thermometers 

 are recorded in hundredths of a degree. 

 Extrapolated values and values interpolated 

 between remote observations are entered within 

 parentheses. A dash indicates a missing ob- 

 served value. The time is the time of mes- 

 senger release. For stations where two 

 hydrographic casts were made, each messenger 

 time and each wire angle is given. 



Three special notations have been used in 

 listing these data. 



To indicate a premature or delayed reversal 

 of the bottle which results in certain depth and 

 property errors, the following notation is used: 



p: pretrip or posttrip 



1 Klein, H. T„ MS. A new technique for processing 

 physical oceanographic data. Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography, La Jolla. California. 



Values which are not drawn through because 

 they seem to be in error without apparent 

 reason are indicated by one of the following 

 notations: 



r: rejected value (seems to be defi- 

 nitely wrong); 



u: uncertain value (may be correct; 

 occasionally it can influence the 

 drawing of the property curve). 



The following remarks concern the first 

 part of cruise TO-59-2 (stations T, 1 to 67; 

 CalCOFI cruise 5908, Hugh M. Smith, see "In- 

 troduction" and table 3): data from a "test" 

 station (T), occupied near San Diego, are listed; 

 each station is identified by a serial number 

 and in parentheses by another number, the 

 latter for CalCOFI purposes [e.g., 57(150.55), 

 7(130.60), T(97.32)]; and hydrographic casts 

 were usually made to approximately 500 m. 

 (standard CalCOFI procedure). 



Except on the first part of TO-59-2, hydro- 

 graphic casts were usually made to approxi- 

 mately 1,000 m. Additional surface-tempera- 

 ture data appear in table 4. 



Dissolved oxygen 



Measurements were made routinely at sea, 

 by the standard Winkler method, on water 

 samples obtained by Nansen bottles. 



Inorganic phosphorus 



Phosphate concentrations were measured 

 routinely at sea, on water samples obtained 

 by Nansen bottles, according to the method of 

 Wooster and Rakestraw (1951). Duplicate sam- 

 ples were used, and the concentrations averaged 

 if they agreed within the 0.05 /xg. at. PO4/I.; 

 if the difference was greater, both values were 

 recorded. 



Total phosphorus 



Concentrations were measured for selected 

 water samples taken in plastic samplers on 

 cruise TO-59-1 only (see table 2, stations 27, 

 29, 30, 35, 37, 40, 42, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51) by 

 Nathaniel Corwin of the Woods Hole 



