Tbe second survey took place in an area for which no normals are 

 available. A comparison of the volume passing section G with that 

 which was found at section F during the first survey, however, shows a 

 marked decrease in volume of water passing southward between the 

 Grand Banks and Flemish Cap. Further comparison of the volume 

 transport past sections HN, H, and G for the second and third surveys 

 shows a continuation of this trend as well as a seasonally increasing 

 recurvature of water north of the latitude of Flemish Cap. Also a 

 large part of the decrease in volume from sections H to G in both the 

 second and third surveys is attributable to an anamolous set onto the 

 Grand Banks between these sections (see figures 14 and 15). 



Table 1 also shows that the volume transport passing the Bonavista 

 triangle during the third survey was greater than normal and with a 

 larger than normal proportion following the eastern branch. At each 

 of the three sides of the triangle the mean temperature was warmer 

 than normal but with the minimum observed temperatures close to 

 normal. In the postseason cruise occupation of the Bonavista 

 triangle the volume transport had dropped off decidedly to subnormal 

 values accompanied by a drop in mean temperature of the Labrador 

 Current passing the NW and SE sections. The minimum observed 

 temperatures dropped to about normal at the NW section and rose to 

 about a half degree above normal at the SE section. At the South 

 Wolf Island section, occupied only a few days later, the minimum 

 observed temperature was the same as that found at the Bonavista 

 triangle, whereas the situation usually found is that of a colder 

 minimum temperature at the Bonavista triangle than at the South 

 Wolf Island section.^ The volume transport, mean temperature and 



2 See Soule, Bush and Murray "International Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service in the North 

 Atlantic Ocean— Season of 1953" U. 8. Coast Guard Bull. No. 39, page 64. 



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