. 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. lel to the coast, reaching latitude about 36° in Jan-uary and February; third, the superheated water coming from theGulf of Mexico, via the Straits of Florida, which gradually mergeswith the Atlantic water; and, fourth, a comparatively cool regionwest of Bermuda, no doubt continuous with the colder water farthernorth. All this, of course, agrees in its main lines with the earlier EXPLORATIONS, W
. 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. lel to the coast, reaching latitude about 36° in Jan-uary and February; third, the superheated water coming from theGulf of Mexico, via the Straits of Florida, which gradually mergeswith the Atlantic water; and, fourth, a comparatively cool regionwest of Bermuda, no doubt continuous with the colder water farthernorth. All this, of course, agrees in its main lines with the earlier EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 7 temperature charts (Agassiz, 1888; Berghaus, 1891; Deutsche See-wahrte, 1882) and the correspondence with Schotts (1912) chart forthe month of February is extremely close. Thus there is no reasonto suppose that the surface temperatures in the winter of 1913-14were anything but normal. In the eastern haK of the region surface salinity (fig. 2) agreed verywell with surface temperature, being lower than °/oo to the westand southwest of Bermuda; with the curve for nearly par-alleluig the curve of 20° temperature here, and the curve of °/oo. Fig. 1. -Surface temperature of the western Atlantic, coast of United States to Bermuda, January to March, 1914. that for 21°. Water salter than °/oo formed a very well-definedtongue swinging northeastward from the Bahama Baijk, the curvefor paraUeUng the coast line, with water fresher than 357oonext the land off Cape Hatteras, 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
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