. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DISTRIBUTION OF SURFACE TEMPERATURE i97 the mean isotherms cannot always be made to correspond with the obser^'ed temperatures so well as they do in this chart. • . tv/t * Of the published records from other sources, perhaps the most important are those m the Meteor Reports (Bohnecke, 1936). Here a very large number of surface temperature readings are tabulated, but they are from all parts of the Atlantic Ocean and only a small percentage he south of the Antarctic convergence Bohnecke gives two
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DISTRIBUTION OF SURFACE TEMPERATURE i97 the mean isotherms cannot always be made to correspond with the obser^'ed temperatures so well as they do in this chart. • . tv/t * Of the published records from other sources, perhaps the most important are those m the Meteor Reports (Bohnecke, 1936). Here a very large number of surface temperature readings are tabulated, but they are from all parts of the Atlantic Ocean and only a small percentage he south of the Antarctic convergence Bohnecke gives two principal tables. One shows the temperatures (also S°/oo, etc.) recorded by the 'Meteor', with date and position (pp. 41-64). Only a small number of these are m. Fig 8 A. Part of a track chart for October 1930. showing hourly positions of the ^Discovery II' during a voyage from Cape Town to South Georgia. See Fig. 5 A for the thermograph record of part of this track. 12 n X- Ship's position at 1200 hours on 13th October. 20^00 (451): Stopped on Station 451 from c. 2000 to 0000 hours. B. P^Jof^rCperature chart for October, including ^Je in A w^^^^^^^^ rrtte-^s^trorie^^^^^^^^^ -P-- -' -'«- --''-' from Plate^I, and the 2° isotherm lies on the mean of the convergence^^^ (No. 33): Observed position of the Antarctic convergence (No. 33 m lable 9, p. 20OJ. ('25): Meteor observations, 1925. ('26): ' Scoresby' station, 1926. Antarctic water, but they arc of some assistarrce although they fill no important gaps in *e Discovery material For tkc other tabic (pp. 65-186) the Atlantic Ocean ts into areas enclosed by ro Tnati udc and longitude, and these are subdivided into 1° areas. Data from many sources are mcluded aid o far as the data permit, the average temperature is given for each f area for each momh. Some of A e a e n Antarctk waters, bu, it seems that such averages, compiled from sources, 1 u d be tLed with caution. B6hnecke dre
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