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FiGUKE 16.-Salinity distribution off Cape Farewell, Greenland, 18 to 20 July 



1952. 



surface just off-shore of the Labrador Current downward and west- 

 ward to intersect bottom at intermediate depths on the contmental 

 slope, is shown reaching bottom at about 800 meters and associated 

 with the warm water in the upper layers near station 4983. Defined 

 by the 3.4° isotherm, this temperature maximum is mterrupted by 

 colder water at station 4982. The warm water at station 4983 is 

 considered to be associated with the North Atlantic eddy and the 

 cyclonic circulation about station 4982 probably brings some ^f Ins 

 warmer water into the deeper circulation of the Labrador Current 



The temperature minimum in the intermediate water of the Labra 

 dor Sea was not as uniform m temperature as usual and ^^de ^^J^^^ 

 tions 4985 and 4986, its temperature was about the s^-^/^/;^^^/^'^^ 

 1951 the temperatures at station 4984 were about a tenth of a degree 

 colder The maximum temperatures below this temperature minimum 

 are outlined by the 3.3° and 3.4° isotherms. 



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