Grand Banks region in 1954 have been compared with the 8-year 

 means for the period 1934-41. 



Three more surveys were added to the material available for the 

 study of the relationship between the position of the cold wall in the 

 Grand Banks region, the strength of the Labrador Current and the 

 strength of the North Atlantic eddy as indicated by the difference in 

 sea level between Bermuda and Charleston. The large postwar 

 fluctuations in the mean sea level of these stations have been noted as 

 possible causes of the poor agreement of postwar observations with the 

 relationship developed for the prewar observations. 



The repetition of the section across the Labrador Sea from South 

 Wolf Island to Cape Farewell has been reported upon and the excep- 

 tionally vigorous circulation noted. The absence of contributions to 

 the West Greenland Current by the Irminger Current continued in 

 1954, although the heat transport of the West Greenland Current 

 was abnormally high through more direct contributions from the North 

 Atlantic edd}'. 



A group of three sections disposed in a triangular array southeast 

 of Cape Farewell and occupied during the 1954 postseason cruise has 

 been examined and the results presented. The southward and east- 

 ward recurvature of the Irminger Current and a part of the East 

 Greenland Current verifies the circulation pattern deduced from the 

 Labrador Sea section, and the separation of the Labrador Sea from 

 the circulation east of Cape Farewell is in accord with the larger 

 numbers of East Greenland bergs recently found in positions excep- 

 tionally far to the south-southeast of Cape Farewell. 



The distribution of total phosphorus found in the section across the 

 Labrador Sea and the Greenland triangle in 1954 has been presented 

 and the phosphorus-density relationships have been examined, 

 leading to the conclusion that total phosphorus is not sufficiently 

 conservative to be useful as a water mass tracer in this region. 



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