DAVIS STRAIT AND LABRADOR SEA 



J 23 



6 2 6.5 bi 5.2 5.5 5i3 SO 87 



32M 3J.34 32 53 3442 34.41 



.34.9? 20 40 60 80 100 



(MILES) 



Figure 89. — Temperature and salinity profiles across the continental shelf and slope July 

 4-August 8, 1931. Section Oi, Belle Isle ; section Pi, White Bay ; and section Qi, St. 

 John's. 



ANNUAL CYCLE 



The Labrador Current has been referred to by some as an 

 overflow from melting; sea ice and smnmer land drainage from 

 the regions of Baffin Bay and the Arctic Archipelago. A point, 

 however, well established by the present observations was the source 

 of the two principal tributaries of the Labrador Current, viz, the 

 West Greenland Current and the Baffin Land Current which joined 

 in the ratio of about 3 to 2. The wintertime observations of the 

 Meteor, 1935 (p. 10) when compared with the U. S. Coast Guard's 

 summertime surveys indicate that the "West Greenland Current off 



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