FOREWORD 



Insufficient ice diifted into tlie Ice Patrol area to warrant inaugurat- 

 ing Ice Patrol during the year 1940. The General Greene carried out 

 the normal oceanographic program and two ice observations were 

 made, the first by the Coast Guard cutter Chelan and the second by 

 the Coast Guard cutter Northland. The Chelan searched the Labra- 

 dor Current from the Tail of the Grand Banks to the Straits of 

 Belleisle and the Northland cruised along the east and west coasts of 

 Greenland. The latter vessel also made oceanographic observations 

 in addition to performing ice observation duty. 



Lt. W. P. Hawley, Ice Observation Officer, prepared the section 

 entitled "Ice Conditions, Ice Patrol Area, 1940," Commander Ed. 

 H. Smith, Commander, International Ice Patrol, the "Ice Observation 

 in the Greenland Sector, 1940," Associate Oceanographer C. A. 

 Barnes the "Oceanographic Investigations in Baffin Bay in 1940" and 

 Principal Physical Oceanographer Flo3^d M. Soule the "Physical 

 Oceanography, the Grand Banks Region and the Labrador Sea in 

 1940." 



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