Exploration of the Intermediate and Deep Western Boundary Current and the Meridional Transport of Water in the Tropical Atlantic Using SOFAR Floats

利用 SOFAR 浮标探索热带大西洋的中深西部边界流和经向水输送

• 批准号: 9114656
• 负责人: Philip Richardson
• 金额: $ 99万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-11-01 至 1997-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9114656&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploration; Intermediate; Deep; Western; Boundary

In this project, the PI's will continue and complete a study of the general circulation in the tropical Atlantic using subsurface acoustic floats. 44 neutrally buoyant SOFAR floats were launched in early 1989, 14 at 800m, 15 at 1800m, and 15 at 3600m, corresponding respectively to layers of Antarctic Intermediate Water and Upper and Lower North Atlantic Deep Water. The array of 6 listening stations will be recovered in late 1992, resulting in a 3.5 year data set describing the Lagrangian characteristics of the flow in these important water masses.

在本项目中，PI将继续并完成以下研究： 热带大西洋的大气环流 声学浮动。 发射了44个中性浮力SOFAR浮标 1989年初，800米有14个，1800米有15个，3600米有15个， 分别对应南极中层 水和北大西洋上层和下层深水。 阵列 1992年底将收回6个收听站， 一个3.5年的数据集，描述了 这些重要水团的流动。