DAVIS STRAIT AND LABRADOR SEA 



101 



If the temperature profiles of the Labrador Current for 1928 be 

 superimposed on the velocity profiles and the average temperature 

 of the current, Frobisher Bay to St. John's, computed in accordance 

 with the method described (p. 24) we obtain the following values: 



° c. 

 Shelf band 1. 5 



Slope iband 4. 



3300 34.00 



SALI N I TV 



35.00 



PiGDRB 65. — Temperature-salinity correlation curves of the Labrador current, Resolution 

 Island to Hamilton Inlet, the summer of 1928. 



If the proportions of shelf to slope band of 1 to 3 be accepted then 

 an average temperature for the whole current was approximately 

 3.4° C. The average rate of heat transfer of the Labrador Current 

 the summer of 1928 was 14.6 million cubic meter degrees centigrade 

 per second (see p. 173). 



Temperature-salinity correlation curves for the sections in the 

 American sector, 1928^ figs. (65 and 66), assist to identify the com- 

 ponents w^hich constitute the Labrador Current. Two inflection 



