Autonomous Floats for the WOCE Pacific Survey

需要进行全球尺度的测量，以充分了解海洋环流，以便能够为与气候有关的问题建立模型。这项工作将用于建造、部署和随后跟踪自治拉格朗日环流探测仪(ALACE)浮标，这些浮标在大洋中部深度随海洋环流漂移，并定期浮到海面，通过卫星报告其位置和海洋数据。这些数据，加上水文和示踪剂信息，将用于海洋环流模型。

Global scale measurements are required to obtain sufficient understanding of the ocean circulation to enable models to be constructed for climate related issues. This effort will provide for the construction, deployment, and subsequent tracking of Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer (ALACE) floats which drift with the ocean circulation at mid-ocean depths and bob to the surface periodically to report their location and ocean data via satellite. These data, coupled with hydrographic and tracer information will be used for ocean circulation models.