Temperature soundings in the ocean off Bermuda are available for 85 years. All records show the water mass just beneath the surface to be remarkably constant in temperature and salinity. Oxygen measurements indicate that this water is in convective contact with the atmosphere each winter. More detailed and frequent measurements made by the ship Panulirus are here presented for the first time, substantiating this remarkable and puzzling climatic stability of near‐surface water in the northwestern Sargasso Sea.
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