G.F. Arata, Jr. Biologist (Florida 



State Board of Con- 

 servation ) 



W.C.Pittman Biological Aid 



Navy Hydrographic Office: 



F.X.Doherty Senior Oceanograph- 



er 

 E . K . Stanton Oceanographer 



C.W. Backus Technician 



Office of Naval Research: 



S .S .Galler Head Biologist 



II Northern Leg 



U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Co- 

 operators: 



W .W .Anderson Chief Scientist 



G.F. Arata, Jr. Biologist (Florida 



State Board of Con- 

 servation) 

 W.C.Pittman Biological Aid 



C.C.Bryant Chemical Aid 



Navy Hydrographic Office: 



E.K.Stanton Senior Oceanograph- 



er 

 F.J.Reynolds Oceanographer 



L.Silverstein Oceanographer 



C.W. Backus Technician 



EXPLANATION OF DATA SHEETS 

 AND TABLES 



Oceanographic and Chemical 



Each of the items appearing on the station 

 data pages is explained below. All doubtful 

 data are indicated and were not used in the 

 construction of the curves from which the 

 interpolated values (standard depth values) 

 were derived. Observed values which were 

 obviously false were omitted entirely. A dash 

 in a table means that no value was available. 

 Interpolations for standard depth values for 



temperature, salinity, sigma-t, and oxygen 

 were for the most part IBM calculations, but 

 in a few instances they are manual interpola- 

 tions from hand drawn curves; those for the 

 chemical constituents were derived from 

 straight lines between observed values . 



The profiles of salinity, temperature, and 

 density were prepared from these data, and 

 appear as Figures 5-15. 



1 . Cruise Number. The first cruise over 

 the established station pattern (Figure 

 1) will be numbered Gill 1, and sub- 

 sequent cruises, Gill 2 through Gill 9 

 (only Gill 1 is covered by the present 

 report) . 



2 . Station Number. Stations are numbered 



consecutively, starting with one, at the 

 beginning of each cruise. The station 

 pattern and numbers as shown in Fig- 

 ure 1 were maintained on each cruise. 

 If a station or series of stations was 

 not occupied, these station numbers 

 are omitted. Regular stations have 

 numbers only; standard and special 

 stations are specifically indicated. 



3 . Date. Month, day, and year are given . 



4. Latitude and Longitude . The position 

 of the station is given in degrees and 

 minutes. 



5 . Time Given in Greenwich Mean Time 

 and is that hour nearest to the start of 

 the first cast. 



6 . Depth. Is the observed uncorrected 

 sonic sounding for the station, record- 

 ed in meters. 



7. Wind. Wind speed is given in meters 

 per second. Direction from which the 

 wind blows is coded in degrees true to 

 the nearest ten degrees. The last zero 

 is omitted. North is 36 on this scale 

 and calm is 00. See Table 1, Com- 

 pass Direction Conversion Table for 

 Wind, Sea, and Swell Directions." 



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