Abstract
The existence of a boundary zone within the subsurface slope water off Nova Scotia was first suggested by Fuglister (1963) after analyzing “Gulf Stream ’60” data. This topic was investigated further by Gatien (1976) who upon closer examination of the “Gulf Stream ‘60” data concluded that indeed there are two distinct water masses, which she called warm slope water and Labrador slope water, separated by a sharp boundary (Fig. 1). Exchange of water properties across this front is clearly important to any consideration of overall budgets for mass transfer in this area, and it was suggested that processes at the front might give rise to a vertical transport of nutrients to help account for the high productivity in the warm surface slope water (Fournier et al., 1977).
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