The World Ocean Circulation Experiment
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment
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世界海洋环流实验
作者：
J. Woods
国际海洋学团体正在准备一项雄心勃勃的五年实验。从1990年开始，它将提供海洋物理性质的第一次全面全球调查。由此产生的数据集将用于测试预测年代际气候变化所需的海洋环流计算机模型。研究结果也将有利于海洋化学、生物学和地质学的研究。这篇综述着眼于推动该项目的气候问题，并讨论了新的观测技术，从空间和原位，这使得在海洋物理探索中迈出这一重要一步是及时的。
The international oceanographic community is preparing for an ambitious five-year experiment. Starting in 1990, it will provide the first comprehensive global survey of physical properties of the oceans. The resulting data set will be used to test computer models of the ocean circulation needed for predicting decadal climate change. The results will also benefit research in marine chemistry, biology and geology. This review looks at the climatalogicalproblems that motivated the project and discusses new observing techniques, from space and in situ, which make it timely to embark on this major step in physical exploration of the ocean.