CONTENTS 



Page 



Foreword Hi 



Figures vi 



Appendixes vii 



Scientific Personnel viii 



I. INTRODUCTION 1 



II. RESEARCH EXPERIMENT 1 



A. Thermal Array 1 



B. Other Parameters 2 



III. INSTRUMENTATION TEST AND EVALUATION 3 



A. Electric Cable Reels 3 



B. Electronic Bathythermograph 3 



IV. OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 4 



A. Temperature Data 4 



B. Sea and Swell 4 



C. Currents 4 



D. Oceanographic Casts 5 



E. Meteorological Data 5 



V. SHIPBOARD DATA REDUCTION 5 



VI. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA 5 



A. Currents 5 



B. Temperature 6 



C. Salinity 8 



D. Density 10 



VII. CONCLUSIONS 11 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 28 



