Low-Latitude Western Boundary Currents in the Pacific Ocean

该奖项是两个项目的组合，都涉及 在中部部署表层海流漂移器， 赤道西太平洋及其海洋环境的分析 轨迹和数据收集的电流和温度 传感器安装在他们，这两个项目涉及美国，法国， 澳大利亚机构。 一个项目（在OCE下审查） 8716509）是一个联合实地项目的组成部分， 水团分布、水流结构和输运 西赤道低纬西边界流 太平洋是如此 35个漂流者将被部署在汇合处 北方和南半球的沃茨，到达 通过南赤道洋流进入印度尼西亚海， 新几内亚海岸暗流和明达诺阿洋流 第二项研究（OCE-8717243）涉及部署350个表面 在三年的时间里， 确定高层平流和热含量的时期， 它的演变。 在西太平洋，理查森将在 负责部署和分析，而在泛太平洋 他将主要参与数据分析。 两 实验是主要的过程研究，有助于 美国TOGA（热带和全球大气） 程序.

This award is a combination of two projects, both involving the deployment of surface current drifters in the central and western equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the analysis of their trajectories and data collected from current and temprature sensors mounted in them, Both projects involve US, French, and Australian institutions. One project (reviewed under OCE- 8716509) is a component of a joint field program to study the water mass distributions, current structures and transport of the low-latitude western boundary currents in the western Equatorial Pacific. Thirty-five drifters will be deployed in the confluence of northern and southern hemisphere waters, which arrive at the entrance to the Indonesian Seas via the South Equatorial Current, the New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent, and the Mindanoa Current. The second study (OCE-8717243) involves deployment of 350 surfce drifters over the entire equatorial Pacific over a three-year period to determin the upper layer advection and heat content and its evolution. In the western Pacific, Richardson will be responsible for deployment and analysis, while in the pan-Pacific study, he will be primarily involved in the data analysis. Both experiments are major process studies contributing to the objectives of the US TOGA (Tropical and Global Atmosphere) Program.