The convenience of the bathythermograph for making rapid detailed surveys of the thermal structure in vertical sections of the ocean is leading to an accumulation of data on ocean temperatures far exceeding that on the corresponding salinities. Since dynamic height anomaly computations require a knowledge of both the temperature and the salinity as functions of depth, it is the purpose of …
Corrections have to be applied to the readings of protected and unprotected reversing thermometers because they are read at a temp erature that differs from that at the time of reversal. In deriving these corrections it is generally assumed that Feruglio’s (1912) equa tion [(5) below] is exact. It is shown here that Feruglio’s equation is not quite exact, but a close approximation. Fro…