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longitude 33°.5 E. that from June till November the temperature 
as well as the salinity of the whole watermass increased and 
especially in the deeper layers. The velocity of the current also 
increased in this period; we have to do here with the Northeape- 
current, one of the outer ramifications of the Gulfstream. After 
discussing this increase Brerrrusz continues: 
“Not in local conditions we should look for the origin of these 
fluctuations, but in the Gulfstream and in the many causes that 
modify the stream on its way, thousands of miles long, from its 
cradle under the Equator, through the Caribbean Sea and the 
Atlantic to the Polar regions. 
2. In our opinion fluctuations in the intensity of the Gulfstream 
are the cause of the fluctuations in the waterlevel and we were 
strengthened in this opinion, when we learned from Breirrusz’s 
investigations the general nature of this phenomenon. 
But if fluctuations in the Gulfstream are responsible, then it must 
be possible to detect a similar periodicity in the North- and South- 
Equatorial current and in the North- and South-East trades. 
We calculated the monthly mean values and departures from 
TABLE 1. 
| pad ed Current 1855-1900 Wind 1855 —1914 
with Ee A EN | aa SS Fee TE oe 
En | Direction ee | Departure Direction en Departure 
| January | 1393 | N281°E.) 4.95 —1.27 | N64°E.\ 5.46 | 40.26 
February | 1161 | 285 4.41 —1.81 62 5.17 | —0.03 
March 1398 | 282 | 5.05 | 1.17 | 63 mist 20,56 
April (138: | 282 | 5.34 |-—0:88 |’ 02 4.69 | —0.51 
May 1425 285 5.89 | —0.33 | 60 5.16 | +0.56 
| June 1250 ‘278 6.97. | 40,15") «50 6.25 | +105 
July Mi1-| 272 8.90 +268 56 | 6.12 40.92 
August 1265 | 267 1.50 \ +128 | 56 5.28 | 40.08 
September 1114 268 7.84 [71.62 jet” fe S86 ate. 08 
‚October 1098 270 6.71 +0.49 67 - | 4,54 0,66 
| November | 1096 | 269 611: b Zo: vont |) abe Ede 
| December | 1411 | 273 4.00 laa os PAAP ED | 
