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FOREWORD o o iii 



INTRODUCTION . 1 



OBSERVATIONAL PROGRAM 2 



ANALYSIS OF PAIRED BT DATA » k 



COMPARISON OF TEMPERATURE SENSORS WITH REVERSING THERMOMETER DATA . . 10 



ERRORS RELATED TO DIGITIZED BT DATA 1? 



CONCLUSIONS 17 



REFERENCES l8 



TABLES 



Table 1. Stunmary of Ocean Weather Station Cruises '. 3 



Table 2. SST Observations Recorded by Reversing Thermometers ... li. 



Table 3» Coefficient of Correlations, Standard Deviations, and 



Standard Errors of Estimate of Paired BT Observations . . 7 



Table k. Mean and Standard Deviations of Differences Between Paired 



Bathythermograph Observations 11 



Table 5« Means, Standard Deviations, and Confidence Limits of Dif- 

 ferences Between Simultaneous Temperature Readings. ... 13 



Correlation Coefficients » 16 



Means and Standard Deviations of Differences 17 



Mean Temperature Differences of Paired Bathythermographs 19 

 Mean Temperature Differences of Paired Bathythermographs 20 

 Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Bucket Tem- 

 peratures, DELTA I 21 



Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Bucket Tem- 

 peratures, DELTA II 22 



Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Bucket Tem- 

 peratures, DELTA III 23 



Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Reference 



Temperatures, DELTA IV 2if 



Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Bucket Tem- 

 peratures, DELTA V 25 



Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Bucket Tem- 



peratiires, ECHO V 26 



Effect of Air-Sea Temperature Difference on Reference 

 Temperatures - ECHO V 27 



Table 6. C' 

 Table 7. M 



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