DAVTS STRAIT AND LABRADOR SEA 



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Egedesminde, and Disko Island. The increase in the current at 

 Ivigtut was explained on page 32, as most probably due to contri- 

 butions from the Labrador Sea. The volume of the West Greenland 

 Current off Egedesminde, as previously explained, is misleading be- 

 cause of a supply from a Davis Strait eddy. (See fig. 8.) The vol- 

 ume of 0.9 million cubic meters per second recorded in the above 

 table for the Disko Island section refers only to the band of West 



VOL. OF CURRENT IN MySEC X lO"^ 



Figure 12. — The distribution of the volume of the We.st Greenland Current along the 

 continental slope from Cape Farewell to the entrance of Baffin Bay, July 29-September 

 3. 1928. 



Greenland Current which entered Baffin Bay between stations 1014- 

 1016. This branch, which was last measured by the Holsteinsborg 

 section, evidently skirted the Egedesminde and Disko Bay sections 

 and followed the deeper channels through Davis Strait. 



THE HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY 



The dual physical character of the water composing the West 

 Greenland Current (see p. 26) does not become revealed until one 

 examines the distribution of temperature and salinity. 



