The Waters of the Western and Northern Coasts of Norway in July-August 1957
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The research was intended to discuss the hydrographical conditions
of the water masses in which biological investigations were simultanously
undertaken. The data were collected during a cruise in July-
August 1957.
Some characteristic features of the different water masses have been
described. The horizontal and vertical distribution of these water masses
have been charted by help of the conditions at selected depths and
sections. A computation of the relative current has been carried out in
the area off Northern Norway.
A good correlation was found between hydrographical conditions
and the distribution of the various developmental stages of Calanus
finmarchus. I. a. the development of the stages was most advanced
in the western part of the warmest water in the Norwegian Atlantic
Current and on the west side of this water mass.
To the west of Bear Island a relatively high volume of plankton
may be related to an anticyclonic movement of the water masses, which
probably was a part of a vortex.
Deep water observations were undertaken in the Norwegian Sea
between 68° and 74° N and to the east of 8° E. A short discussion of
this deep water showed a good conformity with corresponding conditions
in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea described by Mosby
(1959) and Sælen (1959).
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