LAWS AND PROPERTIES OF JOINT STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF FIELDS OF TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND THEIR USE IN OCEANOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS SOLUTION
Laws of joint statistical distributions of fields of temperature <i>T</i> and salinity <i>S</i> in the North Atlantic, corresponding to known properties of conservatism of water masses and consolidation of sea waters when mixing, are described. Examples of practical use of joint statistical <i>T-S</i> distributions in the solution of the problems concerned with filtration of arrays of observations of these fields from casual and regular errors, and in testing their calculated values are given. The algorithm of probabilistic correction of calculated values of <i>T-S</i> fields at desired level of confidence interval of probability, applied in the analysis and correction of interpolated climatic values of <i>T-S</i> fields at the front of the North Atlantic Current, is described.