Some Temperature and Salinity Records from the Canadian Arctic during 1954 and 1955

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Ellis, D. V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1956
• Subjects: General Medicine; Arctic; Baffin Island; Cambridge Bay; Coronation Gulf; Baffin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f56-038; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f56-038

A series of fourteen oceanographic stations were occupied from May 1954 to August 1955 in the Canadian Arctic. Temperatures and salinities were usually recorded at six levels down to 100 m. Low salinities, less than 30‰, were recorded at all depths at two stations in Coronation Gulf and near Cambrid...