VI INTRODUCTION 



Bigelow's interest in behalf of our work and also his iinfailing coun- 

 sel and advice. Commander Eigil Riis-Carstensen, Royal Danish 

 Navy, leader of the Godthaab expedition 1928, has extended a helpful 

 spirit of cooperation in order that a clear exposition of the physical 

 oceanography of the Labrador Sea be attained. Officials of the In- 

 stitut fiir Meereskunde have generously permitted us to make use of 

 the results of the wintertime observations of the Meteor in the 

 Irminger and Labrador Seas. 



Acknowledgments are also made to Mr. C. O'D. Iselin for reading 

 parts of the manuscript; to Dr. W. L. G. Joerg for advice and 

 counsel on bulletin, part 3, of this series; and to members of the 

 United States Coast Guard who have assisted with the actual work 

 of preparing the paper. Institutions which have cooperated include 

 the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; the American Geo- 

 graphic Society ; the Institut fiir Meereskunde ; and the Geophysical 

 Institute, Bergen, Norway. 



