TITLE:   Palmer LTER: Hydrography in the LTER region during August and
         September 1993
AUTHOR:  John M Klinck, David A Smith, Raymond C Smith
Palmer LTER Contribution #75, ANTJ 1994 Review, Vol 29, No. 5 219-221

One of the objectives of the Palmer Long-Term Ecosystem Research
(LTER) program is to characterize the seasonal variations in the
horizontal and vertical distributions of temperature and salinity in
the continental shelf waters west of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Researchers' ability to address this objective has been limited by the
availability of winter hydrographic measurements.  Therefore, a
late-winter, multidisciplinary cruise was conducted west of the
Antarctic Peninsula from 29 August to 23 September 1993 as part of the
Palmer LTER. The hydrographic measurements obtained from this cruise
constitute the majority of existing winter observations for this
region (Gordon and Molinelli 1982; Olbers et al. 1992).  This paper
reports on a preliminary analysis of some of the hydrographic
measurements.  Previous LTER cruises have provided coverage of this
region in the austral spring, summer, and fall.