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We cannot, with such a distribution of data, be certain as to the behavior of 

 the central portion of this ocean. Fig. 5a does illustrate, however, that all of 

 these gauges show negative deviations in March, with the extreme value 

 recorded at Cape Schmidt ( — 19 cm) as noted in the discussion of Fig. 1. 

 Fig. 5b (September) contains no negative values within the Arctic proper, and 



Fig. 5. Legend as for Fig. 1. (a) February, March, April ; (b) August, September, October; 

 (c) May, June, July; (d) November, December, January. 



again the largest deviation, + 27 cm, occurs at Cape Schmidt. Figs. 5c and 5d. 

 for June and December respectively, are nearly but not quite mirror images of 

 each other : the Siberian coast north of the Aleutians has small negative devia- 

 tions in both seasons while a small portion of the Canadian archipelago 

 apparently has positive values at both times. The largest deviations on these 

 two charts are, for June, —12 cm along Norway and —11 cm at Russkaya 

 Gavan ; for December, +16 cm at these same locations. 



