OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISE SUMMARY, WESTERN GREENLAND SEA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1965

• Main Author: Bourkland, Martin T.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHY OFFICE NSTL STATION MS OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEYS DEPT
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1968
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Seismology; *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; *GREENLAND SEA; TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ICE; SALINITY; SAMPLERS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING; OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIPS; SEDIMENTATION; SILICATES; SEA WATER; OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; Edisto; Greenland; East Greenland; east greenland current; Greenland Sea
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0671058; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0671058

This informal report is a summary of an oceanographic survey in the western Greenland Sea during August and September 1965. Scientists from NAVOCEANO, University of Washington, and University of Massachusetts collected physical, chemical, geological, and biological data from aboard USS EDISTO (AGB 2). An effort was made to delineate the Polar Front by collecting oceanographic information across the East Greenland Current at several locations. By using the maximum temperature gradient as a guide, the Polar Front was found to closely follow the edge of the Greenland continental shelf. The Polar Front was well defined north of 75 degrees North latitude. South of this latitude, the temperature gradient existed at a shallower depth and the Polar Front decreased in definition.