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from about 35.3°/oo north of Scotland to about 35.0°/oo off Spitsbergen 

 and the subsurface temperature decreasing from about 8° to less than 4° 

 in the same distance. 



The East Greenland Current flows on or directly off the East Green- 

 land shelf, carrying water of low salinity and low temperature. The 



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ti V* 





ta?-*- 



Fig. 44. Surface currents of the Norwegian Sea (after Helland-Hanseu 

 and Nansen). 



greater part of the East Greenland Current continues through Denmark 

 Strait between Iceland and Greenland, but one branch, the East Iceland 

 Arctic Current, turns to the east and forms a portion of the counter- 

 clockwise circulation in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. 



