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schematic treatment it is possible to derive from the complicated forms of the [TS]- 

 relations graphical representations of the characteristic water types of each ocean 

 that give a good insight into the thermal and haline structure of the sea. This also 

 assists in a clarification of the formation, spreading and mixing of the individual w^ater 

 types and thus facilitates a quantitative description of the oceanic circulation of the 

 deep and bottom layers. Table 83 summarizes the characteristic water types of the 

 three oceans and indicates the temperature and salinity ranges in them. These limiting 

 values for temperature and salinity must naturally only be looked upon as a rather 

 crude measure to demonstrate in what extreme limits oceanographic factors may vary. 



Table 83. Water masses of the Atlantic Ocean 



Water masses of the Indian Ocean 



