A study of the variability of the volume scattering function in and among water types was made using a standard laboratory device on shipboard. Samples were taken from the surface and at depth. Water in the Sargasso Sea had a significantly different scattering function from that of the slope and coastal waters. In a thermal front, south of Bermuda, the water along one isotherm was different from that on either side of it. The thermohaline front on the edge of the shelf in winter is marked by a threefold change in the magnitude of the scattering.
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