Low-Latitude Western Boundary Currents in the Pacific Ocean

该奖项是两个项目的结合体，这两个项目都涉及在赤道太平洋中部和西部部署表层海流漂移器，以及分析它们的轨迹和从安装在其中的电流和温度传感器收集的数据，这两个项目都涉及美国、法国和澳大利亚的机构。其中一个项目(根据OCE-8716509审查)是研究赤道西太平洋低纬西部边界流的水团分布、流结构和输送的联合实地方案的组成部分。35名漂流者将部署在北半球和南半球水域的交汇处，这些水域经由南赤道流、新几内亚海岸暗流和棉兰那海流到达印度尼西亚海的入口处。第二项研究(OCE-8717243)涉及在三年期间在整个赤道太平洋部署350个冲浪漂浮器，以确定上层平流和热量含量及其演变。在西太平洋，理查森将负责部署和分析，而在泛太平洋研究中，他将主要参与数据分析。这两个实验都是主要的过程研究，有助于实现美国TOGA(热带和全球大气)计划的目标。

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.