OCEANOGRAPHICAL RESULTS, MICHAEL SAKS, 1900. 14-5 



In the temperature of the upper strata of the sea we find 

 similar and perhaps even more marked differences between the 

 summer of 1900 and previous years. 



At Station 7 (July 23rd, 1900) the whole water-stratum 

 down to 700 m. was one or even several degrees colder than 

 on June 29th, 1876 (see PI. 4, Fig. 1). 



At Station 47 (August 1900) off Lofoten, we found the 

 water down to 800 m. one or two degrees colder than at Station 

 68 of the N. N. Atl. Expedition, June 30th, 1877. 



H. H. Gran's Station Ee, off the Eids Fjord in Lofoten ^, is 

 nearly on the same spot as our Station 47. Gran's observa- 

 tions at this Station down to 300 and 200 m., on September 

 22nd, 1898, July 4th, 1899, and August 26th, 1899, demonstrate 

 that on all those dates the temperature of the water between 

 20 m. and 200 m. was considerably higher, partly even several 

 degrees higher, than in August, 1900. (PI. 5 Fig. 3). 



In the sea between Norway and Bear Island we find similar 

 differences in the temperature of the upper water-strata between 

 August and September 1900 and previous years, see on PI. 5. the 

 comparisons between the temperature curves at our Stations 59, 

 60, 61, and 65 and the corresponding Stations of the Norwegian 

 N. Atlantic Expedition in 1878. Although the latter stations 

 were taken earlier in the season (July 1878) and although some 

 of them are situated farther north than the corresponding stations 

 taken by Dr. Hjort, the temperatures were at nearly all depths 

 higher in July, 1878, than in September, 1900. At Station 61 

 near Bear Island the temperature was in 1900 found to be below 

 0° G. at depths greater than 20 m. while during the North Atlantic 

 Expedition no temperatures below 0° G. were observed in this 

 part of the sea. 



It is thus obvious that the upper strata of the sea along the 

 Norwegian coast (as far west as the edge of the continental 



' H. H. Gran, 1. c. Tables pp. XXX et seq. 

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