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Because of this failure of our b?thythtr'nogrc"ph, 

 these salinity obsrrvrtions cannot unfortunrtely be dircct- 

 ly correlctod with dttails of the temperature distribution 

 in the v'^ame depths zone. 



Severe! br thythermogrrph obscrvrtions m^de by the 

 "i^tlc.ntis" on June 13, 35 -nd l6, 1945 £t 24.°57' N ]at. 

 end. 77*^35 ' w long., c. position botvreen the bi.nks rnd our 

 st£ . 38, were kindly mcde rvcilcble to us by the ¥oods Hole 

 Ocer.nogrf phic Institute. Most of these traces, (fig. 6) 

 shov tv-mpercture inversions at about 20C feet which are 

 probably correlated with the 51 raeter salinity maximum. 

 Temperc ture irregulcrities :t 600 feet mfy correspond to 

 the salinity raFxinmm at th- 2oO meter observf tit)ns. As 

 might be expected from the week developui'-nt of this feature 

 at the eastern stations of our salinity section, these 

 temperrturo irregularities f re not as mrrked as +-hose ft 

 about 200 fer-t. The dopth of all these fertures varied 

 from trace to trace. As th*^. depth of tJie mixed lay^^r was 

 well defined on a large proportion of the tracer fnd the 

 Vfrirtions in its thickness jppecred cle-r.ly relrtco to 

 the depth of the upper t-i^mperatur^, invrrsions, this 

 fee ture was selected for analysis. 



Starting from an srbitrfry epoch, .the observ-. tions 

 were listed by tic'al hours for the principal lum.r semi-- 

 diurnal tide, Mp. The longest series was that of ten ob- 

 serve felons on June 15. The series for June 16 cn<i June 13 



