ROW: Currents and Energetics of the North Pacific: A Synthesis of Existing Current Meter Data

ROW：北太平洋的海流和能量：现有海流计数据的综合

• 批准号: 8710929
• 负责人: Melinda Hall
• 金额: $ 19.24万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-11-01 至 1992-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8710929&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ROW; Currents; Energetics; North; Pacific

Current meter data from 26 long-term moorings in the North Pacific Ocean will be analyzed. Moorings located in the Kuroshio Extension will be used to "profile" that current, following a method developed by the P.I., and applied to the Gulf Stream. This method can be used to deduce velocity and temperature structure, as well as mass transports of the current. Results will be compared for different alongstream locations, as well as with analogous results for the Gulf Stream. Other investigations include: 1. Attempts to determine the nature of the energy balance involved in the downstream decay of mean kinetic energy flux in the Kuroshio Extension; 2. Determination of eddy kinetic and potential energy budgets for the entire North Pacific region covered by the moorings; 3. Identification of possible instability mechanisms occurring in the region via their energetic signatures.

将对北太平洋26个长期系泊的海流计数据进行分析。位于黑潮延伸区的系泊设备将被用来“描绘”那股海流，遵循P.I.开发的一种方法，并将其应用于墨西哥湾流。该方法可用于推求水流的速度结构、温度结构和质量输运。结果将与不同沿岸位置的结果进行比较，并与墨西哥湾流的类似结果进行比较。其他研究包括：1.试图确定黑潮延伸区平均动能通量下游衰减所涉及的能量平衡的性质；2.确定系泊所覆盖的整个北太平洋地区的涡动动能和势能收支；3.通过它们的能量信号确定该区域可能发生的不稳定机制。