Oceanic Observations of the Pacific 1954: The NORPAC Atlas

By Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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• Language: English
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9780520339750

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Oceanic Observations of the Pacific

OCEANIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE PACIFIC

1954

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES • 1965

OCEANIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE PACIFIC: 1954

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

EDITORS: JOSEPH L. REID. JR., ROBERTS, ARTHUR, EDWARD B. BENNETT ASSISTANT EDITOR: VIRGINIA A. WYLLIE

Consultants to Editorial Board: Elbert H. Ahlatrom, Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, La Jolla; Thomas 8. Austin, Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- er lea, Washington, D. C.; Richard H. Fleming, University of Washington, Seattle; Eugene C. LaFond, U. S. Navy Electronica Laboratory, San Diego; John P. Tully, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Oceanographic Group, Nanaimo

The editors suggest that this volume be cited as:

Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California

1965 Oceanic Observations of the Pacific: 1954.

Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press

University of California Press

Berkeley and Los Angeles

California

Cambridge University Press

London, England

Manufactured in the United States of America

Preface

Oceanic Observations of the Pacific is a medium for publication of oceanographic data collected in the Pacific Ocean and its adjacent seas by the cooperating agencies. At the present time these agencies are Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego, California; Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Honolulu, Hawaii (formerly Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations); Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, La Jolla, California (formerly South Pacific Fishery Investigations); Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Seattle, Washington (formerly Pacific Salmon Investigations); Department of Oceanography of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Pacific Oceanographic Group of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia; United States Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, California. Certain cruises were carried out jointly as California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CCOFI). The agencies cooperating in the CCOFI program are the Scripps Institution, the Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, La Jolla, the California Department of Fish and Game, the Hopkins Marine Station and the California Academy of Sciences.

In addition to the cooperating agencies, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C., participated in two of the cruises presented in this volume.

A grant from the National Science Foundation has supported part of the cost of preparing these data for publication and most of the printing cost.

The present volume contains observations made in 1954. For each oceanographic station, values of temperature, salinity and oxygen are tabulated at observed and at standard depths. Computed values of density, specific volume anomaly or thermosteric anomaly, and geopotential anomaly are also tabulated at standard depths. In addition, some observations of phosphate are included. The positions of the serial observations and the numbers of bathythermograph observations made in 1954 and during the period 1941 through 1954 are shown on charts. Information concerning each cruise is summarized in a table.

Contents 1

Contents 1

Description of Observations

SIGNIFICANCE OF REPORTED OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA

NOTES ON PARTICULAR CRUISES

Summary Cruise Information

Bibliography

CHARTS

TABLES

Description of Observations

SIGNIFICANCE OF REPORTED OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA

Routine field measurements of oceanographic parameters by conventional methods are usually subject to at least the following random errors:

depth ±4m(in the upper 1000 m)

temperature ±0.02 °C

salinity ± 0. 03%

oxygen ±0.04 ml/L

phosphate ± 0.05 to 0.1 pg at/L

A recent analysis of the precision of field measurements of temperature and salinity is that of Wooster and Taft (1958). It should be noted that the above estimate of salinity precision refers