PREFACE 



This report is a presentation of tlie oceanographic data collected by scien- 

 tists from the University of Washington and the Coast Guard Oceanographic 

 Unit during cruises on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers CGC SOUXmVIND 

 and CGC "WESTWIND in Baffin Bay and from a station on the ice in Kane 

 Basin. These cruises and this refiort. are part of tlie U.S. Coast Guard support 

 of the Baffin Bay-North Wat-er project of the Arctic Institute of North America. 

 The area surveyed consisted of Kane Basin and northern and noi-tlieastern 

 Baffin Bay. Data discussed in this rei^ort include physical and chemical obser- 

 vations in these areas. 



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