. 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. a coast from southwest to east and north. J- D] , 7 7 197 .^ ^ ^ r:^ r ^ 1^8 ^^ ^^ ^ r F ./ ^ ^^ - ^^ .-/ ^ ^^ .x^* ^ / // Joo .^ ^ ^^ ^201 / / f f fs; / 1 /^ f/^ \ y I / / / y / / r / EXPLOEATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 27 Water warmer than 24° was confined to the southern and westernpart of the channel, and the water in the Old Bahama Channel wasprobably as warm as 24°, while
. 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. a coast from southwest to east and north. J- D] , 7 7 197 .^ ^ ^ r:^ r ^ 1^8 ^^ ^^ ^ r F ./ ^ ^^ - ^^ .-/ ^ ^^ .x^* ^ / // Joo .^ ^ ^^ ^201 / / f f fs; / 1 /^ f/^ \ y I / / / y / / r / EXPLOEATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 27 Water warmer than 24° was confined to the southern and westernpart of the channel, and the water in the Old Bahama Channel wasprobably as warm as 24°, while the surface was fractionally cooleralong the western face of the Bahama Bank. At the northern endof the channel the surface temperature was °°, and it wasconsiderably cooler east of the Bahama Bank, as pointed out (p. 6).Tlius, the inequalities in surface temperature are gradually dissipatedfrom west to east and north, the temperature range diminishingfrom 4° off Habana to practically zero off Jupiter Inlet. As a whole,the Straits were considerably warmer on the surface than the Atlanticwater east of the Bahama Bank. 35 Salinity; % .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9 36 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6. 1200 Fig. 23.—Salinity sections on the line Key West-Habana; stations 10197,10199,10200. The surface saUnity was much more uniform than the surface tem-perature, the extreme range over the whole length of the channelbeing about °/oo only (° to ). The serial observations on the Key West-Habana line (fig. 22, 23)show that off Key West the water cooled from nearly 21° on thesurface to 11° at 200 meters; 20 miles farther south from 23° to 14°;in the center of the channel only from ° to 22° in the same that depth the curves of the temperature sections on this lineapproach each other, the temperature range at 900 meters beingonly ° (7°°). The warmest station was in the center of theStrait (station 10201). Unfortunately, serial water samples
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