Joint Support of Proposal "Moored Measurement of Thermohaline Circulation and Meridional Heat Flux in the Subtropical Western Atlantic at 26.5 Degrees N"

在该项目中，PI将在西北大西洋北纬26度附近部署一组海流计，以直接测量温盐环流的体积和热传输分量。测量与海洋大气局大西洋气候变化方案和世界海洋环流实验的中心目标直接相关。测量将扩展1988年开始的时间序列，并最终导致7年的体积输送时间序列和6年的热量输送时间序列。重点将是调查与气候有关的流动瞬变，并试图解决西部边界涡动热通量分量的校正计划ACCP和WOCE大西洋热通量部分。

In this project, PI's will deploy an array of current meters near 26 degrees North in the Western North Atlantic in order to directly measure volume and heat transport components of the thermohaline circulation. Measurements are directly related to central goals of both the NOAA Atlantic Climate Change Program (ACCP) and the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). Measurements will extend a time series started in 1988, and will eventually lead to a seven-year time series of volume transport and a six-year series of heat transport. Focus will be on investigating climate-related flow transients, and an attempt to resolve the western boundary eddy heat flux component for correction of planned ACCP and WOCE Atlantic heat flux sections.