PREFACE 



This paper is the first of a series of important oceanographic reports to be translated and reproduced by the 

 Oceanograpliic Section of the Weather Directorate, Headquarters Army Air Forces. The material presented 

 in this series will be of considerable usefulness to the technical services of the Ai-my Au- Forces. 



The present paper has been translated and adapted from Giinther BShnecke's "Die Temperatur," issued in 

 193S as Part II of Temperatur, Salzgehalt wul Dichfe an dcr Oherfiache des Atlantischen Ozeans, which is Volume V 

 of a series of fifteen volumes on the scientific results of the German Atlantic Expedition of the Research and Sm-vey 

 Ship Meteor (1925-27). These reports were origmally edited by A. Defant and published under the auspices 

 of the Notgemeinschaft der DeutschemWissenschaft by Walter de Gruyter and Company, Berlm. 



H. R. Seiwell, 

 Major, Army Air Forces, 

 Oceanographer, Directorate of Weather, 

 Washington, D. C, Headquarters Army Air Forces 



December 1, 1942. 



