Drifter Measurements of Ocean Salt and Heat Budgets and WindResponse in COARE

该项目是合作努力的一部分，目的是获得海洋环流和大气强迫的长期(两年)观测，预计将于1992年底/1993年初在西太平洋暖池进行一项密集的实验，称为TOGA-COARE(海洋大气耦合响应实验)。长期测量将于1991年底开始，并持续到密集实验完成后很久，为密集实验提供总体环境背景。在这一部分，中国海军S号将测试在漂流浮标上安装电导率(盐度)传感器的可行性，以便更好地描述上层海洋密度。电导率波动是密度结构变化的一个主要来源，因此对西太平洋地区海洋对大气强迫的响应有很大影响。

This project is part of a collaborative effort to obtain long- term (2 years) observations of ocean circulation and atmospheric forcing, in anticipation of an intensive experiment planned for the Western Pacific Warm Pool in late 1992/early 1993, called TOGA-COARE (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment). Long- term measurements will begin in late 1991, and continue until well after the intensive experiment is completed, providing the overall environmental context for the intensive experiment. In this component, the P.I.'s will test the feasibility of attaching conductivity (salinity) sensors to drifting buoys, in order to obtain better descriptions of the upper ocean density. Conductivity fluctuations are a major source of variability in the density structure, and hence greatly affect the ocean response to atmospheric forcing in the Western Pacific Region.