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Figure 1. Coordinate system 3 



Figure 2. New York Bight section locations 9 



Figure 3. Preliminary mean seasonal average vertical density field 



in terms of Sigma-t (Ps,t,o "1) ^ ^^^ ^^ calculated from data 



bank files of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) 



and specific oceanographic cruises 10 



Figure 4. Modeled seasonal sea current velocity for the New York 



Bight Region 11 



Figure 5. Mean surface currents off the North American east coast during 



the spring season (after Neumann and Schumacher, 1944) 13 



Figure 6. Mean surface currents off the North American east coast 



during May (after Bumpus and Lauzier, 1965) 13 



Figure 7. The relationship between observed surface currents taken from 

 drift bottles, light ship data and oceanographic altases 

 and modeled surface currents for the New York Bight in the 

 summer season 14 



