ing "plume" of icebergs south of Cape York also 

 suggested a southward surface current there coin- 

 cident with the southern arm of the anticyclonic 

 meander indicated by the 34 dyn cm isoline (fig. 

 35, upper) . The westward tongue-like extension of 

 Baffin Bay Atlantic Water south of Cape York 

 (fig. 34, upper) suggested a westward current at 

 tliat depth (400 m). 



The westward and nortliward coastal currents 

 off Cape York appeared to be related to the pres- 

 ence of an overlying near-surface wedge of rela- 

 tively low salinity (generally <32.5%o, but occa- 

 sionally <30%o) water (figs. 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 19, 26, 

 30, and 32). This wedge has been suggested by 

 Muench (1971) to be due to runoff from the west- 

 ern Greenland near-coastal ablation zone. The 

 southward current west of the Carey Islands was 

 l^art of the well documented net southward flow 

 through Smith Sound, farther to the north. 



The 1969 data clarified the temperature and 

 salinity distributions and circulation in northern 

 Baffin Bay from the Carey Islands to Melville Bay. 

 The features observed were similar to those ob- 

 served in previous years. Failure of the moored 

 current meters precluded comparisons between 

 baroclonic and total currents. 



REFERENCES 



Muench, R. D. (1971) Tlie physical oceanography of the 

 northern BafiBn Bay region. The BaflBin Bay — North 

 Water Project Scientiflc Report Xo. 1. Arc-tic Institute 

 of North America, Washington, D.C., 150 pp. 



Muench, R. D., M. J. Moynlhan, E. J. Tennyson, Jr., 

 W. G. Tidmarsh, and R. B. Therous (1971) Oeeano- 

 graphic conditions in Smith Sound and northern BaflSn 

 Bay, September 1968 in Oceanographic Observations in 

 Baffin Bay during July-September 1968. U. S. Coast 

 Guard Oceanographic Report, CG-373-37. 



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