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represent a complete thermohaline process. However^ the 

 prospect of securing a source of energy for the eddies through 

 this means appears not to be encouraging in view of the density 

 transports calculated from temperature and salinity data for 

 the surface, especially in the case of what appears to be the best 

 observations namely those at Onslow Bay, 



As an illustration of a probably forced regime in 

 the atmosphere, it is interesting to consider the lower stratosphere. 

 In the troposphere the transport of heat is down the gradient 

 (poleward) as in a nornal heat engine, but in the lower stratosphere 

 a reversal of the temperature gradient takes place, while the 

 horizontal eddies still transport the heat poleward as in the 

 troposphere (White, 1954), In the atmospheric case it is possibly 

 justified to say that the regime in the lower stratosphere is 

 partly forced by the underlying tropospheric circulation. 



The results of Webster's study (1961b) and the 

 present one indicate that the meanders play an important role 

 in the maintenance of the Gulf Stream and that the question of 

 the distribution of stream velocity or temperature cannot be 

 separated from that of the existence and action of the meanders. 

 It is necessary to obtain more observations from different 

 sections of the Gulf Stream in order to be able to verify the 

 described abnormal heat transport. It would be extremely 



