. Explorations of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer "Bache" in the western Atlantic, January-March, 1914, under the direction of the United States, Bureau of Fisheries : oceanography. s, and probably as far south as north-ern Florida. The °/oo water may be definitely classed as thecontinuation of tho Antilles current, thus agreeing with the tempera-ture curves; the slightly fresher water (°/oo) west of it as largelyFlorida current water; and the still fresher water next the coast northof Florida as coast water. 8 EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914.
. Explorations of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer "Bache" in the western Atlantic, January-March, 1914, under the direction of the United States, Bureau of Fisheries : oceanography. s, and probably as far south as north-ern Florida. The °/oo water may be definitely classed as thecontinuation of tho Antilles current, thus agreeing with the tempera-ture curves; the slightly fresher water (°/oo) west of it as largelyFlorida current water; and the still fresher water next the coast northof Florida as coast water. 8 EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. Schotts (1902) chart of average surface salinity for the year showsthe same northward tongue of *^/00 or Antilles water, as is to beseen on the Baclie chart (fig. 2); but most of the critical area isblank for want of data. The records since collected by the inter-national committee for the exploration of the sea (1909, 1910,1911) add very little to our knowledge of the region in question,those for this general part of the Atlantic being chiefly limited to aline from the neighborhood of Bermuda to Jamaica. In short, pre-vious salinity records, at least by modern methods, are so scanty for. CAPE HATTER BERMyOA BAHAIiAS n^ Fig. 2.—Surface salinity of the western Atlantic, coast of United States to Bermuda, January to March, 1914. the region crossed by the Baclie that it is impossible to state whetherthe conditions which she encountered there are characteristic of thewinter season. Typical examples of the serial temperatures and salinities taken bythe Baclie between the continental slope and Bermuda, and betweenBermuda and the Bahama Bank, which are given in full in the tables(p. 55), are represented graphically in the accompanying sections(fig. 3-10). The temperatures all agree in showing a general cool-ing from 19°-22° on the surface to about 4° at 1,800 meters. The EXPLOEATIONS^ WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 9 curves southwest of Bermuda are all approximatel
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