Research on Ocean Circulation

该项目有两个目标：研究起源于拉布拉多海的中深水的形成过程，以及研究控制海洋温盐循环的非线性方程的各种解。在前者中，对来自北大西洋的数据的分析表明，浮力强迫是水团形成的主要原因。将构建一个简单的模型来阐明物理过程。在第二方面，已知温盐方程的几个数学解与海洋示踪剂的分布有很大的相似之处。然而，一些解决方案尚未获得，并根据海洋学数据集进行测试，以确定其他基本关系。这项任务涉及有序地审查一些这样的解决方案。

This project has two objectives: to study the formation processes of the intermediate depth water which has its origins in the Labrador Sea, and to study the various solutions to the non-linear equations governing thermohaline circulations in the ocean. In the former, an analysis of the data from the North Atlantic suggests that buoyancy forcing is the primary cause of the water mass formation. A simple model will be constructed to elucidate the physical processes. In the second aspect, it is known that several mathematical solutions to the thermohaline equations bear much similarity to the distribution of ocean tracers. However, a number of solutions have yet to be obtained and tested against the oceanographic data sets to determine other fundamental relationships. This task involves the orderly examination of a number of such solutions.