ABSTRACT 



The physical oceanography of tlie shelf and slope waters of the New 

 York Bifrlit (Block Island to Cape May) in August of 1974 is described. 

 Temperature, salinity, and density data, presented in surface contours and 

 section profiles, showed the shelf/slope front, a cold core on the shelf, and a 

 salinity core on tlie slope. Geostrophic currents in the slope water were in- 

 ferred from the density structure, and showed two anticyclonic eddies with 

 ma.ximum geostrophic velocities of approximately 40 cm s"'. Temperature 

 and salinity profiles indicated shelf/slope mixing related to the eddies. 



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