WATER MASSES OF THE WORLD OCEAN (Defant, 1961) 



Water Masses of the Atlantic Ocean 



Water Masses of the Indian Ocean 



Salinity (Voo) 



1. Equatorial water 



2. Indian central water 



3. Antarctic intermediate water 



4. Subantarctic water 



5. Indian Ocean deep and antarctic 

 circumpolar water 



6. Red Sea water 



34.8 to 35.2 

 34.5 to 35.4 

 34.4 to 34.7 

 34.1 to 34.6 



34. 7 to 34. 75 

 35.5 



Water Masses of the Pacific Ocean 



(Prom, Defant, I96I, Pergammon Press, 

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