January 1980	VOLUME 5	NUMBER 1	IJOEDY	(ISSN 0364-9059)

 SPECIAL ISSUE ON The practical salinity scale 1978

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
		Front cover and table of contents
		Back cover
PAPERS
Thomas M. Dauphinee		Introduction to the special issue on the practical salinity scale 1978		1
Edward Lyn Lewis		The practical salinity scale 1978 and its antecedents		3
Ronald G. Perkin and Edward Lyn Lewis		The Practical Salinity Scale 1978: Fitting the data		9
Thomas M. Dauphinee, John Ancsin, H. Peter Klein, and M. John Phillips		The effect of concentration and temperature on the conductivity ratio of potassium chloride solutions to standard seawater of salinity 35 ‰(Cl 19.3740 ‰)		17
F. Culkin and Norman D. Smith		Determination of the concentration of potassium chloride solution having the same electrical conductivity, at 15°C and infinite frequency, as standard seawater of salinity 35.0000 ‰ (Chlorinity 19.37394 ‰)		22
Alain Poisson		The concentration of the KCl solution whose conductivity is that of standard seawater (35 ‰) at 15°C		24
Thomas M. Dauphinee, John Ancsin, H. Peter Klein, and M. John Phillips		The electrical conductivity of weight diluted and concentrated standard seawater as a function of salinity and temperature		28
Alain Poisson		Conductivity/salinity/temperature relationship of diluted and concentrated standard seawater		41
A. L. Bradshaw and Karl E. Schleicher		Electrical conductivity of seawater		50