OCEANOGRAPHIC STATION DATA 



Oceanographic station data are given in table 1. Units of auxiliary data are, in 

 general, self explanatory. Wind force is in Beaufort Scale; sea state and visibility are 

 in standard code.* 



In table 2 (oceanographic data), observed values of temperature and salinity 

 are listed at depths where water samples were taken. Depths in feet and temperatures 

 in degrees Fahrenheit have been retained. The values were obtained from bathythermo- 

 grams after adjustment of the recorded surface temperatures to those observed with a 

 calibrated mercury bucket thermometer. Depths for interpolated values of temperature, 

 salinity, and density (in <x, units) were selected to show the detail of the structure in this 

 shallow region. Since the bathythermograph was used to obtain temperature, those 

 values of temperature given as "interpolated" can be considered as "observed," whereas 

 salinity and a t are true interpolated values. 



VERTICAL SECTIONS 



Vertical sections of temperature, salinity, and density are shown in figures 2 

 through 13 for the major sections traversed by HMCS CEDARWOOD for comparison 

 with the schematic sections used in volume 1 of this report. The large vertical exaggera- 

 tion of these sections (varying from about 7500 to 1 at 60°N latitude to 5100 to 1 at 

 70°N) was chosen to show adequately the extreme vertical gradients which are 

 encountered. This exaggeration has the disadvantage, however, of distorting the hori- 

 zontal changes, which were also large. This distortion must be kept in mind when 

 examining the sections. 



HORIZONTAL SECTIONS 



Horizontal distributions of temperature and salinity at the surface and at 80 

 feet (approximately 25 meters) depth are given for the Chukchi Sea only (figs. 14-17). 

 This is the only region where coverage was adequate to show the variation of the 

 distributions with time during the expedition. The coverage differs somewhat between 

 the two sets of observations, the primary difference being that the northernmost station 

 reached was only about 70°15'N during the period of 20-26 August as opposed to 

 73°N during the earlier period (9-15 August). The reader is referred to volume 1 for 

 mean distributions for both the Eastern Bering Sea and Eastern Chukchi Sea. 



* Hydrogrophic Office, H. O. Publication 606-c Bathythermograph Observations 1951. 



