Oceanographic Cruise Summary: Baffin Bay-Davis Strait-Labrador Sea, Summer 1968

The USCGC EASTWIND made an oceanographic survey of the Baffin Bay area during the summer of 1968. Ice potential stations were occupied in support of NAVOCEANO's East Arctic Ice Forecasting Program. Additional Nansen cast stations were taken to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in their continual moni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Countryman, Kenneth A.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE NSTL STATION MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1969
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*WEATHER FORECASTING
*MARINE GEOPHYSICS
TEMPERATURE
SALINITY
HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING
SEA ICE
ARCTIC OCEAN
OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIPS
NEWFOUNDLAND(PROVINCE)
COAST GUARD
ARCTIC REGIONS
BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
OCEAN CURRENTS
BAFFIN BAY
DAVIS STRAIT
LABRADOR SEA
Arctic
Newfoundland
Arctic Ocean
Baffin Bay
Edisto
Baffin
Davis Strait
Labrador Sea
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0854734
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0854734
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Summary:The USCGC EASTWIND made an oceanographic survey of the Baffin Bay area during the summer of 1968. Ice potential stations were occupied in support of NAVOCEANO's East Arctic Ice Forecasting Program. Additional Nansen cast stations were taken to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in their continual monitoring of the Labrador Current. A comparison of the temperature and salinity data obtained on the EASTWIND survey with data obtained on a similar cruise by USCGC EDISTO in 1967 seems to indicate that during both years the cooling season had begun prior to the survey.

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