The surface topography shown in figure 24 indicates a simpler 

 pattern in the Labrador Sea than that found in 1952 and 1953, when 

 the extreme outer margins of the North Atlantic eddy reached north- 

 westward as far as this section. The contribution of offshore water 

 of the Labrador Current to the offshore part of the West Greenland 

 Current between stations 5708 and 5709 may not be as direct as 

 indicated in figure 24. The higher temperatures of this water in the 



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August 1954. 



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